Possiblity of a reconsideration of that part of the Johnson Immigration Bill which fixes as a basis for quotas the 1890 census, increases daily. It now appears that the House Immigration Committee ...

On January 10, 1921 a fire in the basement of the Department of Commerce in downtown Washington, D.C., destroyed most of the 1890 census records. One reason the records could not be saved was that ...

United States Census Bureau By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

Barring unexpected events, the Johnson Bill for a two percent quota on the basis of the 1890 census, in its latest form, number 7995, will, probably, come up for consideration and vote on Tuesday ...

THE NATION'S POPULATION; Census Bureau's Statistics of Cities Exceeding 25,000. LAST DECADE'S INCREASE Percentage Less than from 1880 to 1890 -- Most Significant Growth in Washington State.

The 1890 census was by far the largest yet designed; it asked more questions than ever before and deployed enough enumerators (46,804) to constitute a decent army.

Herman Hollerith's machine used punchcards to tabulate data for the 1890 census. Reid asked, "Would it be fair to say that the census has actually played a role in the invention or development of ...

U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr. Steven Dillingham holds up his census bags, one from 1890 which was a gift from his wife. REUTERS / Brian Adams Every decade the US conducts a census, and while ...

Credit: US Census Bureau By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

Since 1790 the Federal Government has taken a census every 10 years, and every 10 years the large cities complain their number of residents has been undercounted. In 1890, New York City believed ...

1890 - The U.S. Constitution mandates a census, or headcount, of the country's population every ten years. When the Constitution was written, the main reason for the census was to know the number ...