| Title | Map of the Shifting Center of National Population, 1790-1870
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| Alternate Title | The Progress of the Nation, 1790-1870 | Map of the Shifting Center of National Population, 1790-1870
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| Creator | Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897
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| Type of Resource | cartographic
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| Date Created | 1874
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| Digital Origin | reformatted digital
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| Topics | Population geography | Migration, Internal | Census
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| Places | United States
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| Dates | Eighteenth century | Nineteenth century
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| Subject Genre | Statistical maps
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| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/10176/codu:57840
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| Language | English
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| Extent | 1 online resource (map) : JP2 file, col.
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| Physical Note | Raster
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| Scale | Scale not given.
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| Coordinates | (W 85°--W 75°/N 41°--N 37°)
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| 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.
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| 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)
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