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The Census

The Census
In early censuses, government enumerators traveled from house to house to collect information on the country’s people. The Census, by Spanish artist Isidoro Marin Gares, shows a census taker gathering information in an early Spanish census. The painting dates from the late 19th or early 20th century.
Archivo Iconografico, S.A. /Corbis
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