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1850 Decennial Census

Inquiries Included in the Decennial Census of 1850

Name; address; age; sex; color (white, black, or mulatto) for each person; whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic; all free persons required to give value of real estate owned; profession, occupation, or trade for each male person over 15; place of birth; whether married within the year; whether attended school within the year; whether unable to read and write for persons over 20; whether a pauper or convict.

For a full list of 1850 census material available at the Penn Library, please search the Franklin Catalog by the subject heading United States Census, 7th, 1850 and United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850 as the author

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Supporting Materials
Penrose, Maryly Barton. "Heads of families" index, 1850 Federal census, city of Philadelpnia [sic] . 2d ed., rev. Franklin Park, N.J. : Liberty Bell Associates, 1974.
[Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks: F158.25 .P45 1974]

Penrose, Maryly Barton. "Heads of families" index, 1850 Federal census, city of Philadelphia [microform].Franklin Park, N.J. : Liberty Bell Associates, c1965.
[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 4380]

Bentley, Elizabeth Petty. Index to the 1850 census of Pennsylvania, Berks County . Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: F157.B3 B26]
Print Publications
United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850. The Seventh Census. Report of the superintendent of the census for December 1, 1852; to which is appended the report for December 1, 1851. Washington, R. Armstrong, printer, 1853.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .D5]

United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850. The Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. [New York] : Arno Press, 1976.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .C45 1976]
Reprint of the 1853 ed. published by R. Armstrong, Public Printer, Washington.

United States. Census Office. 7th, 1850. Message of the President of the United States, communicating a digest of the statistics of manufactures according to the returns of the seventh census. Brooklyn, N.Y., Central Book Co. [ca.1975].
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .B3 1859a]
35th Cong., 2d Sess. Senate. Ex. doc.39
Photographic facsimile of 1859 edition, Washinton, D.C.

United States. Census office. 7th census, 1850. Mortality statistics of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 ..., with sundry comparative and ilustrative tables
. Washington, A. O. P. Nicholson, printer, 1855.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .A44 ]

United States. Census office. 7th census, 1850. Statistical view of the United States, embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue; the detailed statistics of cities, towns and counties; being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information
. Washington, A.O.P. Nicholson, public printer, 1854.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .C65]

Statistical view of the United States, embracing its territory, population--white, free colored, and slave--moral and social condition, industry, property, and revenue; the detailed statistics of cities, towns and counties; being a compendium of the seventh census, to which are added the results of every previous census, beginning with 1790, in comparative tables, with explanatory and illustrative notes, based upon the schedules and other official sources of information. by J. D. B. De Bow, superintendent of the United States census. [Brooklyn, N.Y., Central Book Co., 1975?]. Photographic facsimile of 1854 edition printed in Washington by Beverly Tucker, Senate Printer.
[Van Pelt Library Stacks: HA201 1850 .C67 1854a],

United States. Census Office. 7th Census, 1850. Report of the Superintendent of the Census for December 1, 1852; to which is appended the Report for December 1, 1851. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Central Book Co., [1975?].
[Van Pelt Library Library: HA201 1850 .C6 1853a]
Microforms
United States. Census Office. 7th Census, 1850 Census of population, 1850. Washington, D.C. : Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853-1854.
[Van Pelt Library Microtext: Microfilm 2603]
1850.1. Tables of population of counties and towns, arranged in alphabet. order; includes sex, age, and color.
1850.2. Statistical view: white, free colored, slave population; moral and social conditions; industry, property, revenue; detailed descriptions of towns, cities, and counties.
1850.3.Report of the Superintendent of the Census, 1850.

United States. Census Office. 7th census, 1850. Population schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850. [microform] Washington, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1963.
[High Density Storage: National Archives Film M-432], Reel 806-824.

United States. Bureau of the Census. Vital Statistics, 1850-1880. Washington : Govt. Print. Office, 1885. Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, Inc., 1974. 1 reel. 35 mm.
[Van Pelt Library Microtext :Microfilm 2612 ]
1850.1. Mortality statistics, embracing cause of death, age and sex, color and condition, duration of illness, nativity, season of decease, occupation of persons.
1880.1. v.11. Statistics of deaths by states, principal cities, etc.
1880.2. v.12. Statistics of deaths by locality, cause, etc.

United States. Census Office. 7th-8th Census, 1850-1860. Census of Manufacturing, 1850-1860. Washington : Govt. Print. Office, 1859-1865. Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, Inc., 1974. 1 reel. 35 mm.
[Van Pelt Microtext: Microfilm 2616]
1850.1. Message of the President. Statistics of Manufactures of the 7th census.
1860.1. Manufactures of the U. S. in 1860.
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