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The Boy with the U.S. Census
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102 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1911
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About the author
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
189 books3 followersFrancis William Wheeler, was an English author, Episcopal priest, occultist and astrologer. After moving to the United States, he earned a doctorate in theology from the University of Chicago. Starting in 1906 or so, Wheeler was successful -- using the name Francis Rolt-Wheeler -- as a writer of books, mostly for boys. Later Wheeler left the United States, became immersed in the occult and wrote several books on that topic in French.
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January 12, 2017
Such a product of its time.
This quick-to-read novel presents the grotesque racial and ethnic consensus of United States progressives at its fullest bloom during Edwardian Era America. The premise of the novel is that a young man seeking a career in the newly established Census Bureau works his way through the various kinds of field and office work typical of statistics gathering at the time. Along the way Hamilton, the eponymous 'boy', tours manufactures as part of the economic census, enumerates the residents of Western Kentucky including a syndicate community of free Negros, philosophizes with a trio of hobos, performs clean-up and data quality checks in the slums of New York City, and then returns to headquarters in Washington to edit enumerator forms, reviews returns from Puerto Rico and learns about enumerator conditions in the Philippines.
Each of these offers a chance to reflect upon the horrors of having non-Whites in the United States in its multicultural glory. One century and some out the racial fears of the novel seem antique, horrifying, and strangely current all at the same time. The one piece the US Census Bureau has determined is reprintable on its site today is a fascinating visit to the original Hollerith tabulation machine, the original IBM machine.
This quick-to-read novel presents the grotesque racial and ethnic consensus of United States progressives at its fullest bloom during Edwardian Era America. The premise of the novel is that a young man seeking a career in the newly established Census Bureau works his way through the various kinds of field and office work typical of statistics gathering at the time. Along the way Hamilton, the eponymous 'boy', tours manufactures as part of the economic census, enumerates the residents of Western Kentucky including a syndicate community of free Negros, philosophizes with a trio of hobos, performs clean-up and data quality checks in the slums of New York City, and then returns to headquarters in Washington to edit enumerator forms, reviews returns from Puerto Rico and learns about enumerator conditions in the Philippines.
Each of these offers a chance to reflect upon the horrors of having non-Whites in the United States in its multicultural glory. One century and some out the racial fears of the novel seem antique, horrifying, and strangely current all at the same time. The one piece the US Census Bureau has determined is reprintable on its site today is a fascinating visit to the original Hollerith tabulation machine, the original IBM machine.
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