1900 chicago census

The Library welcomes visitors beginning Nov. There are many geographic and subject specific publications from the 12th census not listed in this document. Abstract of the twelfth census of the United States, United States. Census Office. Abstract of 12th Census [microform] : [S. Merriam, Director United States. Census Office Washington, D. Analysis and ratio tables. Statistics of death -- V-VI.

Farms, live stock and animal products. Crops and irrigation -- VII-X. United States by industries. States and territories. Special reports on selected industries find in the library and online via Hathi Trust. Special reports on selected industries. Wentworth Ave. Princeton Ave.

Before , even and odd numbered addresses were not assigned to a specific side of a street. For example: Before , The address of W. After , even numbered addresses were assigned to the north and west sides of streets and odd numbered addresses were assigned to the south and east sides of the streets. Be sure to remember this when your target address is located on a Enumeration District boundary line. A pre - address could be in either ED that shares a boundary line.

After identifying your target ED in the Census, remember that post street addresses may be completely different than the street addresses you find in the Census Enumeration District you have selected. The Census will list the addresses and street names in existence in Directional Coordinates did not exist for the census, but were included on the maps to help you locate addresses on current day Chicago Street maps.

Chicago in Benevolent Institutions. Ward 1 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 2 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 3 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 4 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 5 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 6 Enumeration District Descriptions. Ward 7 Enumeration District Descriptions.

Joost Dupon of the Map Collection did most of the scanning and most of the Photoshop manipulation as well. Shannon Thompson of the Map Collection did the majority of the necessary editing of cataloging records. Christine McCarthy of the Library's Preservation Department was good enough to do some emergency conservation work on the transit map. Social Sciences Bibliographer Frank Conaway made some useful editorial suggestions about this text.

Bobby Butler of the Map Collection did some light file editing in Additional maps of Chicago in the early s and in the preceding and following decades can be found elsewhere on the Internet. Topographic and other maps from this period are available through the University of Illinois Historical Maps Online project. The digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps available by subscription only include building-by-building maps of early 20th-century Chicago.

The Encyclopedia of Chicago Website includes several maps from this period. The companion Website, Social Scientists Map Chicago , contains several maps focusing on the same years. Most maps of Chicago during this period--at the University of Chicago and elsewhere--remain available in paper only.

Toggle navigation The University of Chicago Library. Chicago, Chicago, Click on the links below to access scans of some of the sheet maps of Chicago from the years between and the onset of World War I that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. The maps were scanned at dpi using NextImage software and were saved as tiff files You can access these files in two different ways: [1] Click on the thumbnails below to see the files in a program called Zoomify.

Comments are welcome. Chicago Ill. Scale [ca. Maps on the Chicago transportation problem. Map no. Mitchell's real estate map of Chicago and suburbs : including towns of Norwood Pk. Chicago Region Ill. Real property--Illinois--Chicago Region--Maps. Scale [,]. Chicago, Ill. Mitchell, , c Lake Michigan coast chart. Michigan, Lake--Maps.