Section of the 1850 census form, with printed type and some parts filled in by hand. Race categories are circled in red. In 1870, the census added a “Chinese” category as anxieties over ...

Census-takers did not use standard forms in the early censuses. For 1850-1880, the codes for enumerators were generally white (W), black (B) and mulatto (M). Beginning in 1850, the data item was ...

This week, as Americans begin to fill out their Census forms, they are sending messages ... sometimes represented only by a tick mark. In the 1850 and 1860 Censuses, “slave schedules” included ...

on the 1850 U.S. Census was the same Thomas H. Randle on the 1850 slave schedule. Bannerman noted that these government forms were recorded just 17 days apart by the same census taker, Samuel P.

This 1850 census was the first made after California ... was published in book form in 1929. The census taker went from house to house, listing all the occupants and numbering the houses in ...

Collected by the Census Bureau since 2001, it covers the topics previously included in the long form of the decennial census ... IPUMS has decennial census samples from 1850 on. The 1850 and 1860 ...