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Title Westward Movement of the United States' Center of Population, 1790-1870
Alternate Title The Progress of the Nation, 1790-1870
Map of the Shifting Center of National Population, 1790-1870
Creator Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
Corporate Creator United States. Census Office
Type of Resource cartographic
Date Created 1874
Digital Origin reformatted digital
Topics Population geography
Migration, Internal
Census
Places United States
Dates Eighteenth century
Nineteenth century
Subject Genre Statistical maps
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codu:57840
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Language English
Extent 1 online resource (map) : JP2 file, col.
Physical Note Raster
Scale Scale not given.
Coordinates (W 85°--W 75°/N 41°--N 37°)
Notes » Website description: Julius Hilgard innovated the technique of identifying the “center” of population at each decennial census, which had a profound effect on Frederick Jackson Turner’s concept of the frontier.
» Scale bar in map image.
» Untitled, but taken from section entitled “The Progress of the Nation, 1790-1870."
» “The following map exhibits to the eye the westward movement of the centre of population from 1790 to 1870 which has been described in words and figures above.”
» Host/Source Creator: Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897. Host Type of Resource: text. Host Extent: 1 p.l., 5 p., 1 l., 4, 14, 13, 8, 3, 4 p. : LIV pl. (maps, diagrs.) ; 56 x 24 cm. Host Classification: G1201.G1 U53 1874
» Last alternate title from Website.
Host Title Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870: with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government. Compiled under the authority of Congress by Francis A. Walker, superintendent of the 9th census ... [New York, N.Y.] : Julius Bien, lith., 1874.
Local Identifiers Center_of_Population.jp2
nationID: 5.22
nationIDchrono: 4.23
nationIDcreator: 1.80.1
(DLC) 05019329 (Host)
(OCoLC)2898344 (Host)
(OCoLC)62777866 (Host)