13 May 2011

1900 US Census Occupations

Made this discovery on Google Books today. Not time to prattle on about it, but it is a listing of occupations as sampled from the 1900 census. It was put together by the Bureau of the Census. Neat stuff.




2 comments:

sajosovic said...

Also available at http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030389880.
See also http://www.familyresearcher.co.uk/glossary/Dictionary-of-Old-Occupations-Index.html
Free online dictionary of well over 2000 old trades,
occupations and terms found on census records.

Diana Ritchie said...

Thanks - that is cool! AND it can be downloaded as a pdf :-)