Representative government depends on keeping an accurate count. As the 2020 Census kicks off, this exhibition from the David M. Rubenstein Americana Collection provides an in-depth look at the origins and story of the U. S. Census from 1790 through the 1800s, using 30 books and manuscripts that reveal the critical role the Census played in the development of the country. Among the highlights: the first U.S. Census from 1790, a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation from 1863, and a Census of American Indians from 1894. (Curated by Michael Ryan, vice president and Sue Ann Weinberg director of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library)
Tue - Thu 10am - 6pm
Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 10am - 6pm
Sun 11am - 5pm
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)
New York, NY
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The People Count: The Census in the Making of America
