If you can find a shapefile showing the modern 50 states you could save out a copy and edit your copy using the QGIS vector editing tools. Perhaps this shapefile? It should be public domain from data.gov https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2017-nation-u-s-current-state-and-equivalent-national
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:20 AM Spencer Graves < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > > Date: 9/7/21 2:07 AM (GMT-08:00) > > To: [email protected] > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Historic mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic > -- ---------------------------- Nicholas Tripcevich n <[email protected]>[email protected] 510.926.9412
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