Antique Chart of Occupations and School Attendance of the United States, 1874

1874 · Views & Engravings

Antique Chart of Occupations and School Attendance of the United States, 1874

Name: Antique Chart of Occupations and School Attendance of the United States, 1874
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11875-2
Price: 335 USD
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Date: 1874
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 55 × 41 cm (21.7 × 16.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning, minor wear. Blank verso, please study image carefully.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-11875-2

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

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Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Occupations and school attendance in the United States, an original color lithograph (Plate XXXII) from the Statistical Atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, compiled by Francis A. Walker and published in 1874. The title block describes a chart showing, for the United States and for each state, with distinction of sex, the ratio between the population over 10 years of age and the number of persons engaged in each principal class of gainful occupations and attending school.

The sheet is a grid of small square diagrams rather than a map. A large square for the whole United States stands at the upper left, with a square for each state below it, each labeled in capitals, from Alabama to the South West Territories. Each square is divided into colored blocks in green, blue and yellow tints, according to the key at the upper right, so that the share of the population engaged in agriculture, in other occupations, or at school can be compared state by state at a glance.

The atlas turned the returns of the 1870 census into graphic form, and this plate is one of its charts on the working population.

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