Scenes Include: The electric population chart in the Department of Commerce Building in Washington, DC. Street scenes of business men and women, men wearing suites, ties, and hats, housing construction; schools, classroom, blackboard, teacher. Service station, gas stations, freeway or toll road traffic, commuter trains and station, types of information asked for on earlier censuses; early census taker in a wilderness area; cartoons of early census takers.
The New York Stock Exchange; depression unemployment lines and an "apple seller", and newspaper headlines of 1929 stock market crash. Maps area of the U.S. and centers of population at various dates from 1790. Includes pictures of Incas, ancient Chinese, Moses, a Roman census, Christ's nativity, and a colonial home. George Stone and Dr. Philip Hauser discuss the census questions; censuses of Incas, Chinese, Egyptians, Hebrews, Romans, and colonial Americans; and early U.S. censuses.
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