U.S. Census: Counting on You

Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau counts all the people residing in the U.S. Explore census-related materials in Smithsonian collections, from a 1790 jug listing state populations to tabulating equipment to posters reminding Puerto Ricans to be counted in the 2000 census. Visit 2020census.gov to learn more.

Census Jug

Census Bureau Questionnaire, 1960

Pantograph Card Punch Used at the United States Bureau of the Census

Census Badge, 1900

Punch Card Like Those Used in the 1890 U.S. Census of Population (Replica)

Pamphlet, "Let's Talk Census", 1960

Bureau of the Census Publication TAB TIP

Lift Every Voice

The Only Tool You Need To Answer the Censis

U.S. Bureau of the Census Tabulating Machine

Census Enumerator Badge, 1960

Autographed Example of the Final Print Run from the Bureau of the Census UNIVAC I Computer

Reprint, Punched Card Methods for Census Tabulations

Punch Cards in the Style Used in the U.S. Census of Population, 1900, IBM90916

We Need Your Answer

How America Knows What America Needs

Punch Cards Made for the U.S. Census of Population, 1930

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. Comp. under the authority of Congress by Francis A. Walker, M.A., superintendent of the ninth census ..

Doan's Directory of the U.S. With the Latest Census of Large Cities, 1913 - 1914

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

Let's Reach For Our Future

poster

How America Knows What America Needs

Generations are Counting on You

Generations are Counting on You

Es Nuestro Futuro, Hagase Conta

Es Nuestro Futuro, Hagase Conta

Como Puerto Rico Sabe lo que Puerto Rico Necesita

How America Knows What America Needs

Generations are Counting on You

Generations are counting on this

A new and complete statistical gazetteer of the United States of America : founded on and compiled from official federal and state returns, and the seventh national census / By Richard Swainson Fisher

For Our Future

US Census Bureau Punch Cards for 1934 Census of Prisoners

Poster

Name Your Tribe, Answer The Census

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