Census Bureau's "By Decade" website
Includes a variety of publications, questionnaires, datasets, and more
Highlights
Questions asked (see questionnaire)
Address; name; relationship to head of family; race; sex; age; marital status; number of families in house; number of persons in house; number of persons in family; whether a soldier, sailor or marine during Civil War (Union or Confederate) or widow of such person; whether married during census year; for women, number of children born, and number now living; place of birth of person and parents; if foreign born, number of years in the U.S., whether naturalized or whether naturalization papers had been taken out; profession, trade, or occupation; months unemployed during census year; months attended school during census year; literacy; whether able to speak English, and if not, language or dialect spoken; whether suffering from acute or chronic disease, with name of disease and length of time afflicted; whether defective in mind, sight, hearing or speech, or whether crippled, maimed, or deformed, with name of defect; whether a prisoner, convict, homeless child, or pauper; home rented or owned by head or member of family; if owned by head or member, whether mortgaged; if head of family a farmer, whether farm rented or owned by him or member of his family; if owned, whether mortgaged; if mortgaged, post office address of owner. Supplemental schedules for the Indian population; for persons who died during the year; insane; feeble-minded and idiots; deaf; blind; diseased and physically defective; inmates of benevolent institutions; prisoners; paupers and indigent persons; surviving soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows of such; inmates of soldier's homes.
For more information:
Find all 1890 census publications in the Library.
Key publications:
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Vol I: Report on population of the United States (2 pts) |
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Vol II: Report on the Insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb, and blind in the United States |
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Vol III: Report on crime, pauperism, and benevolence (2 pts) |
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Vol IV: Report on vital and social statistics (4 pts) |
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Vol V: Reports on the statistics of agriculture |
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Vol VI: Report on manufacturing industries (3 pts) |
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Vol VII: Report on mineral industries |
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Vol VIII: Report on population and resources of Alaska |
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Vol IX: Report on statistics of churches |
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Vol X: Report on Indians taxed and Indians not taxed |
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Vol XI: Report on insurance business (2 pts) |
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Vol XII: Report on real estate mortgages |
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Vol XIII: Report on farms and homes: Proprietorship and indebtedness |
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Vol XIV: Report on transportation business (2 pts) |
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Vol XV: Report on wealth, debt, and taxation (2 pts) |
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Compendium of the Eleventh Census (3 pts) |
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Abstract |
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Statistical atlas of the United States |
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Special census report on the occupations of the population of the United States |
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Vital Statistics of New York and Brooklyn covering a period of six years ending May 31, 1890 |
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Vital statistics of the District of Columbia and Baltimore covering a period of six years ending… |
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The five civilized tribes in Indian territory: The Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations. |
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Indians. Eastern bank of Cherokees of North Carolina |
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Indians. The Six Nations of New York. Cayugas, Mohawks (Saint Regis), Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas, Tuscaroras. |
