nmm 22 4500 ICPSR03805 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s2009 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR03805 MiAaI MiAaI Philadelphia Social History Project [electronic resource] Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Society of Friends Manuscript Census Schedules, 1838, 1847, 1856 Theodore Hershberg 2009-02-26 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2009 ICPSR 3805 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. Also available as downloadable files. Initially taken in 1838 to demonstrate the stability and significance of the African American community and to forestall the abrogation of African American voting rights, the Quaker and Abolitionist census of African Americans was continued in 1847 and 1856 and present an invaluable view of the mid-nineteenth century African American population of Philadelphia. Although these censuses list only household heads, providing aggregate information for other household members, and exclude the substantial number of African Americans living in white households, they provide data not found in the federal population schedules. When combined with the information on African Americans taken from the four federal censuses, they offer researchers a richly detailed view of Philadelphia's African American community spanning some forty years. The three censuses are not of equal inclusiveness or quality, however. The 1838 and 1847 enumerations cover only the "old" City of Philadelphia (river-to-river and from Vine to South Streets) and the immediate surrounding districts (Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, Southwark, Moyamensing, Kensington--1838, West Philadelphia--1847); the 1856 survey includes African Americans living throughout the newly enlarged city which, as today, conforms to the boundaries of Philadelphia County. In spite of this deficiency in areal coverage, the earlier censuses are superior historical documents. The 1838 and 1847 censuses contain data on a wide range of social and demographic variables describing the household indicating address, household size, occupation, whether members were born in Pennsylvania, status-at-birth, debts, taxes, number of children attending school, names of beneficial societies and churches (1838), property brought to Philadelphia from other states (1838), sex composition (1847), age structure (1847), literacy (1847), size of rooms and number of people per room (1847), and miscellaneous remarks (1847). While the 1856 census includes the household address and reports literacy, occupation, status-at-birth, and occasional passing remarks about individual households and their occupants, it excludes the other informational categories. Moreover, unlike the other two surveys, it lists the occupations of only higher status African Americans, excluding unskilled and semiskilled designations, and records the status-at-birth of adults only. Indeed, it even fails to provide data permitting the calculation of the size and age and sex structure of households. Variables for each household head and his household include (differ slightly by census year): name, sex, status-at-birth, occupation, wages, real and personal property, literacy, education, religion, membership in beneficial societies and temperance societies, taxes, rents, dwelling size, address, slave or free birth. Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03805.v1 occupations icpsr slavery icpsr African Americans icpsr Black community icpsr ex-slaves icpsr housing icpsr living conditions icpsr nineteenth century icpsr RCMD IX.A. African American RCMD IX. Minority Populations DATAPASS I. NDIIPP RCMD VI. History ICPSR I.A. Census Enumerations: Historical and Contemporary Population Characteristics, United States Hershberg, Theodore Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 3805 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03805.v1 nmm 22 4500 ICPSR00056 MiAaI m f a u cr mn mmmmuuuu 130521s1984 miu f a eng d (MiAaI)ICPSR00056 MiAaI MiAaI Urban Growth in America [electronic resource] Philadelphia, 1774-1930 Sam Bass Warner 2008-03-25 Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 1984 ICPSR 56 Numeric Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2013-05-21. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions. Also available as downloadable files. This study contains aggregate economic, political, and social data for the city of Philadelphia in the period 1774-1930. Data are provided for occupational categories in 1774 and 1860 (Parts 1 and 3), the place of birth of the city inhabitants in 1860 (File 2), and for workers aged 10 and over in 1930, tabulated by ward and industry group (Part 4). Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00056.v1 cities icpsr economic conditions icpsr historical data icpsr immigration icpsr industry icpsr occupations icpsr politics icpsr population dynamics icpsr population migration icpsr urban areas icpsr urban population icpsr urbanization icpsr DSDR VI. Population Characteristics RCMD VI. History ICPSR II.C. Community and Urban Studies, Historical Urban and Community Structure Studies Warner, Sam Bass Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR (Series) 56 Access restricted ; authentication may be required: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00056.v1