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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Census Records"”.
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Probabilistic Methodology for Record Linkage Determining Robustness of Weights
… information for an individual across multiple censuses.</p> <p>In creating a computerized method for linking censuse records it needs to be determined if weights calculated from one geographical area, can be used to link records from another geographical area. Research performed by Marcie …
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Higher than those of their race of less fortunate advantages:Race, ethnicity, and West Indian political leadership in Detroit's African American community, 1885-1940
… biographies and a survey of periodicals, census records, and records generated by the institutions that had West Indian leaders. The dissertation concludes that West Indian immigrants perceived middle-class status and ethnicity as a means of distinguishing themselves from their African …
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Shackleford Banks: Applying Archaeological and Geospatial Approaches to Maritime Settlement and Abandonment
… University's 2021 summer field school as well as census records, oral histories, and shoreline data to explore the settlement and abandonment of Shackleford Banks communities. Examining this evidence, this thesis looks to find the degree to which economic and environmental change led to the …
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Ante-Bellum Race Relations in Middle Tennessee: A Study of Wilson County
… Tennessee, and six in West Tennessee. Using the census records for these areas he considered representative of their section of the state, and relying heavily on state laws, newspapers, and the few private papers pertaining to these counties, he set out to show what slavery was like in Tennessee.
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Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi
… using oral histories of migrants and recruiters, census records, and newspapers a fuller understanding will be gained from this under researched period. This study shows the goals and realities of recruitment, the shift in migration patterns from the 1970s to the 1990s, and ultimately add to the …
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Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise
… encyclopedic entries, archival documents, census records and an assortment of publications written by her, this paper explores the equivocal meaning of an expert within the domain of home economics.</p> <p>This thesis situates Vaughn within the changing role of an expert as tenuously …
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"Six Days Thou Shalt Labor": African-Americans in the Southern Textile industry, 1895-1929
… communism. Newspaper articles, oral histories, census records, company newsletters, and writings of industrialists collected from archival sources and public records form the basis of this dissertation.</p> <p>In a number of mills throughout the South, black women and men worked under difficult …
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Intercultural Colonization and the Landscape: The Historical Archaeology of San Emigdio, South Central California
… maps, photographs, historic accounts, and census records), the themes are developed to provide an understanding of what ownership means in an intercultural landscape. Themes of ownership and sense of belonging are developed through the theorizations of colonialism (with the idea of systems …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… Primary sources used in this work include census records, county wartime destitute lists, pension applications and records, newspapers, Beauvoir Soldiers’ Home records, and the 2016 results of the Beauvoir Veteran Project at the University of Southern Mississippi.</p>
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
… culture, wills, probates, inventories, court records, account books, receipts, invoices, census records, personal correspondence, and personal property tax assessments. Scholars of early America and the southern backcountry have often narrated German cultural identity transformations along the …
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A Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi During the American Civil War
… state. This work is grounded in the 1860 U.S. Census Records, private letters and diaries of both Vicksburg and Natchez citizens, and the secondary literature on the nature of community.</p>
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Gendered work: Women's paid labor in Barre, Vermont and Trinidad, Colorado, 1880--1918
… and midwives. By compiling and manuscript census records for 1880, 1900, and 1910, and city directories for the period 1880 to 1918, this study identified 3,634 working women in Barre and 3,886 working women in Trinidad. Cross-checking these names against probate, city, and county court …
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Cell phone location data for travel behavior analysis
… The methods we present utilize call detail records (CDRs) from mobile phones in conjunction with geospatial data, census records, and surveys, to generate representative origin-destination matrices, route trips through road networks, and evaluate traffic congestion. Moreover, we implement …
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Hope and Struggle in the Policed Inner-City: Black Criminalization and Racial Capitalism in Philadelphia, 1914-1978
… archived news reel, municipal court dockets, census records, oral histories, interviews, police investigation reports, housing project pamphlets, and maps to demonstrate that a consequence of tough on crime policing was hyper-surveillance, the use of excessive force, and neglect by officers in …
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The use of Geographical Information Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction strategies: a case study of Volcán de Colima, Mexico
… the development and application of proxies to census records, the undertaking of a building vulnerability survey and the spatial mapping of civil and emergency infrastructure. Hazard exposure was assessed using primary modelling of laharic events and the digitisation of secondary data sources …
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Professional Women Interior Decorators in Britain, 1871 - 1899
… archival sources, including trade directories, census records, periodicals and newspapers, has revealed that at least nineteen female-run interior decoration firms were active in Britain between the years of 1871 and 1899. Scholarship on the history of British interior design, however, is …
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Aspiring Writers and the Conditions of Authorship, 1870–1914
… a living, so would not have been listed in the census as authors. Many would never have been published, and many others may have had no desire to see their work in print, but composed fiction or non-fiction simply for their own enjoyment. Presenting a representative sample of real-life aspirants …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… locate all associated excavation and research records; 2) sort, clean, and catalog Fort Owen artifacts that have been collected over the past several decades; 3) examine whether and how a poorly provenienced collection still had significant research value relevant to the study of Fort Owen; 4) …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… locate all associated excavation and research records; 2) sort, clean, and catalog Fort Owen artifacts that have been collected over the past several decades; 3) examine whether and how a poorly provenienced collection still had significant research value relevant to the study of Fort Owen; 4) …
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The Economics of Violence and Development in Post-Conflict Societies
… fieldwork, human rights reports and historical census records. The second paper examines how wartime economies affect subnational variation in armed violence between insurgent and the state after armed conflict has come to a halt at a national level. The third article builds on the finding that …
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