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Following each subsequent decennial census for
to
,reports and statisti-
cal atlases were produced with more numerous and varied graphic illustrations. he
volume from the Eleventh Census (
), under the direction of Henry Gan-
nett [
-
], contained over
graphs, cartograms and statistical diagrams.
here were several ranked parallel coordinate plots comparing states and cities over
all censuses from
-
. Trellis-like collections of shaded maps showed inter-
state migration, distributions of religious membership, deaths by known causes and
so forth.
he
and
volumes produced under Gannett's direction are also notable
for (a) the multimodal combination of different graphic forms (maps, tables, bar-
charts, bilateral polygons) in numerous plates and (b) the consistent use of effect-
order sorting (Friendly and Kwan,
) to arrange states or other categories in rela-
tion to what was to be shown, rather than for lookup (e.g. Alabama-Wyoming).
For example, Fig.
.
shows interstate immigration in relation to emigration for
the
states and territories in
. he right side shows population loss sorted by
emigration, ranging from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois at the top to
Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona at the bottom. he let side shows where the emigrants
went: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Texas had the biggest gains, Virginia the biggest
net loss. It is clear that people were leaving the eastern states and were attracted to
those of the Midwest Mississippi valley. Other plates showed this data in map-based
formats.
However,the Age ofEnthusiasm andthe Golden Ageweredrawingtoaclose.he
French Albums de statistique graphique were discontinued in
due to the high
cost of production; statistical atlases appeared in Switzerland in
and
, but
never again. he final two US Census atlases, issued ater the
and
censuses,
'wereboth routinized productions, largely devoid ofcolour and graphic imagination'
(Dahmann,
).
Figure
.
.
Interstate migration shown by back-to-back barcharts, sorted by emigration. Source:
Statistical Atlas of the Eleventh Census,
, diagram
, p.
(author's collection)
