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1902 -2002 animation


Please join us as we celebrate the Census Bureau's Centennial.
The United States Congress created the permanent Census office in 1902, which became the Bureau of the Census a year later in the new Department of Commerce and Labor.

It stayed in the Department of Commerce when Labor split off as a separate agency in 1913.

centennial updates

NEW! Great Photos of the
Centennial Quilt! See it in living color!


NEW! Centennial Multimedia is here! Check out radio sound bites, videos, photographs and more-- all about the last 100 years of the Census Bureau! The good stuff is here!
A Century of Change- compare some general lifestyle data from 1902 to 2002 Data comparisons table here!


Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Marketing Services Office

Last Revised: January 14, 2003