[OHM] map for 1890 US Census

[Spencer Graves]

Hello:


	  Thanks for the reply.


	  How can I get shapefiles to match the US as of 1890-05-31, so I can 
add numbers or colors or shading to represent the percent of deaths due 
to malaria in each of the 50 "states and territories"?


	  Thanks,
	  Spencer Graves


On 9/7/21 8:07 AM, ntripcevich wrote:
> Something like this QGIS Chloropleth tutorial
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ttW9ptW7Y74
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at effectivedefense.org>
> Date: 9/7/21 2:07 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: historic at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OHM] map for 1890 US Census
> 
> Hello:
> 
> 
>    What do you suggest I do to plot data from the 1990 US Census on a map?
> 
> 
>    I have data on the percent of deaths due to malaria in each of 50
> "states and territories" from the 1890 census, "during the census year
> ended May 31, 1890".[1] It's essentially a modern map of the contiguous
> 48 with two differences:  (1) Oklahoma is split in two with roughly the
> southeastern 40 percent being "Indian territory" and the rest labeled,
> "Oklahoma".[2]  (2) The District of Columbia is counted separately.
> 
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Spencer Graves
> 
> 
> [1] The percentages range from 0.2 to 10.6, which I computed from raw
> counts of total deaths and deaths from malaria given in Tables 4 and 5,
> on pages numbered 16 - 425, which give deaths "from each specified
> disease and class of diseases, with the distinction of age and sex,
> during the census year ending May 31, 1890" in John S. Billings, M.D.
> (1894) Report on the Vital and Social Statistics in the United States at
> the Eleventh Census:  1890.  Part III. -- Statistics of Deaths
> (Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office).
> 
> 
> [2] There are Wikipedia articles on "Indian Territory" and "Oklahoma
> territory".  The boundaries of the two seem to have been specified in
> "The Oklahoma organic act of 1890", 1890-05-02.  They were later merged
> by "Oklahoma statehood", 1907-11-16.
> 
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