AN IMPORTANT ATLAS DEPICTING CRITICAL STATISTICAL DATA OF THE EARLY POST-CIVIL WAR PERIOD

Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the 9th Census. Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Ninth Census. [New York]: [Department of the Interior, Census Office], Julius Bien, lithographer, 1874. 

Folio, 16 1/8 x 21 3/4 in. plates numbered I - LIV (approx. 38 maps and 16 charts). Original three-quarters calf gilt, titles gilt. FIRST EDITION.  

WITH Manuscript chart. N.p., n.d. 1 page, 21 3/4 x 16 3/8 in. 

A landmark work representing one of the first comprehensive attempts to visualize demographic, economic, agricultural, and other data through maps and innovative graphics. Generated from the data of the Ninth Federal Census conducted in 1870, the first census completed after the Civil War, the plates provide fascinating visualizations of a country in the midst of several seismic population changes.

Notably, the atlas includes two maps showing the "Colored" populations in the United States, the first post-war census-derived maps: "Distribution of the Colored Population...East of the 100th Meridian" and "Proportion of the Colored to the Aggregate Population."

The atlas also explores the extensive immigrant populations through several series of maps showing various nationalities and ethnicities. Many of the charts, especially those visualizing racial and gender distributions, show the rapid expansion into Western Territory.

Also included is what appears to be a cartographic sketch of rivers and waterways in pencil, overlaid with a chart of numbers. Further research may reveal interesting connections to the present work. 

An important map, especially for scholars and collectors of Reconstruction Era United States. 

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Boards detached, sunning & heavy wear to extremities. Maps with some marginal tears.