American Census Taking - From the First Census of the United States. Bureau of the Census, S.N.D. North, Director. Reprinted from The Century Magazine for April, 1903
by Bureau of the Census. Merriam, William R., former director
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Washington DC: Department of Commerce and Labor, 1903. Pamphlet. 34p., illustrated with tables plus photos and diagrammatic renderings of automatic tabulating machines, presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and staple-bound in 8x5 inch tobacco-brown wraps printed in brown ink. Front cover bears several owner/seller numerals in unerasable pencil, back cover has five tiny punctures similar to but not the same as silverfishing (with odd offsets to terminal leaf beneath each hole. Also find a faint trace of minor dampstain and marginal creasing to terminal leaves. Staples mildly rusted. A good copy. The successive devices to aid tabulation are not your usual book illustrations; these were not present in item's first appearance in The Century, while a few paragraphs in the magazine have been omitted.
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 305381
- Title
- American Census Taking - From the First Census of the United States. Bureau of the Census, S.N.D. North, Director. Reprinted from The Century Magazine for April, 1903
- Author
- Bureau of the Census. Merriam, William R., former director
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Department of Commerce and Labor
- Place of Publication
- Washington DC
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1900S; Labor - American; Military History; technology; Statistics, statistical theory;
Terms of Sale
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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