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Title: Notes on the Six Nations (New York), 1890, successors to the Five Nations which once constituted the League or Confederacy of the "Iriquois" [sic]....
Identifier(s): text:303090
Description: These notes were taken for the eleventh Census of the U.S., 22nd Division. It lists chiefs, crops, population, diseases, houses, other property and values of the Iroquois in New York.
Creator: Carrington, Henry B., 1824-1912et al
Subject: Haudenosaunee; Iroquois Indians; Indians of North America -- Census; U.S. Census Bureau
Date: 1890; 2019

Title: Census of New Jersey.
Identifier(s): graphics:4607; APSimg4965
Source: Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85);
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 ; Census; New Jersey; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1737, 1738 and 1745

Title: The Ghosts of Census Past and Their Relevance to 2020
Identifier(s): video:1543
Description: The US did not re-apportion the house of representatives after for 1920 census. This was because it showed that the population was more urban, made up of more immigrants and racial and ethnic minorities. The ramifications of this can be seen today.; Further reading: http://opac.amphilsoc.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=174885
Subject: Census, United States; Demographic surveys, United Sates; Population; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-08

Title: Can the Census Be Gerrymandered?
Identifier(s): video:1544
Description: Prewitt explains how the census can be politicized. Public money funds the program, but the government cannot dictate how that science is conducted. This talk was later re-visted in the APS Great Talks blogpost and as virtual public programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.; Podcast: https://www.amphilsoc.org/museum/exhibitions/great-talks-american-philosophical-society/good-numbers-make-good-democracy;Prewitt was also interviewed by Patrick Spero during the COVID-19 pandemic on the effect of the virus on the 2020 Census
Subject: Census, United States; Demographic surveys, United Sates; Gerrymandering, United States.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-11-08

Title: Census of people living in 1870 [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:4885; APSdigrec_0802; Recording Number: 18; Program Number: 08
Description: Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 53, program 2.The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: United States--Census, 9th, 1870; Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century; Mandan Indians--History--19th century; Indians of North America--North Dakota--History
Date: 1969

Title: Census of people living in 1870 [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:4887; APSdigrec_0801; Recording Number: 18; Program Number: 07
Description: Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 53, program 1.The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: United States--Census, 9th, 1870; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century; Mandan Indians--History--19th century; Indians of North America--North Dakota--History
Date: 1969