A History of Central Florida, Episode 48: Electronic Communication
Podcasts
Documentaries
Communication--United States
Post offices
Postal service--Florida
Telegraph--Florida
Telephone--United States
Computers--United States
Email
Episode 48 of A History of Central Florida podcasts: Electronic Communication. RICHES Podcast Documentaries are short form narrative documentaries that explore Central Florida history and are locally produced. These podcasts can involve the participation or cooperation of local area partners.<br /><br />Episode 48 features a discussion of several artifacts of communication technology: a post office box from the Winter Garden Heritage Museum, a telegraph from the New Smyrna Museum of History, a telephone from the Telephone Museum, a computer from the Museum of Seminole County History. This podcast also includes interviews with Nancy Pope of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and Richard R. John of Columbia University.
Velásquez, Daniel
Original 16-minute and 11-second podcast by Daniel Velásquez, 2015: RICHES Podcast Documentaries, Orlando, Florida. <a href="https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vrrYHVLV7qM</a>.
<a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES</a>
Pope, Nancy
John, Richard R.
Cassanello, Robert
Clarke, Bob
Ford, Chip
Gibson, Ella
Hazen, Kendra
Kelly, Katie
<a href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
<a href="http://www.loc.gov" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>
<a href="https://archive.org/" target="_blank">Internet Archive</a>
application/website
eng
Moving Image
Killarney, Florida
Winter Garden Heritage Museum, Winter Garden, Florida
New Smyrna Museum of History, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Telephone Museum, Maitland Historical Museum, Maitland, Florida
Museum of Seminole County History, Sanford, Florida
U.S. Census for Central Florida, 1960
Census--United States
Orange County (Fla.)
Marion County (Fla.)
Brevard County (Fla.)
St. Lucie County (Fla.)
Seminole County (Fla.)
Volusia County (Fla.)
Flagler County (Fla.)
Lake County (Fla.)
Osceola County (Fla.)
Population--United States
The Eighteenth United States Census records for Brevard County, Flagler County, Lake County, Marion County, Orange County, Osceola County, Seminole County, and Volusia County, Florida, for 1960. The census divides the population by gender, race ("white", "black", "Japanese", "Chinese", "Filipino", and "other"), and native-born vs. foreign-born. Those who are foreign born are further divided by country of origin. The census then lists the population categorized by age, military service, transportation use, primary and secondary school attendance, and college attendance. The census also collected information on labor and on unemployment.<br /><br />The Census of 1960 was the first to be mailed to respondents. The U.S. Post Office Department delivered census questionnaires to households, the head of household was required to complete the questionnaire, and an enumerator was to pick it up. The enumeration process was divided into two stages: first, select data for each person and dwelling unit was collected; and second, more detailed economic and social data was collected from a sample of households and dwelling units. The census questionnaires for the second stage were hand-delivered by enumerators as they were collecting data from the first stage. Households receiving the second census questionnaire were to complete the form and mail it to their local census office. Twenty-five percent of the population was giving additional sample questions. Because of the increased use of sampling, less populated areas were prone to sampling variation; however, this did not significantly decrease the usefulness of census statistics gathered. Moreover, increased use of sampling reduced data processing costs. Additional questions included in the 1960 Census were related to places of work and means of transportation to work. By 1960, nearly all census data was processed using computers. The U.S. Census Bureau used a Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computer (FOSDIC) for the first time, thus decreasing the amount of time and money required for data input.
<a href="http://www.census.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Census Bureau</a>
Original census data collected by the <a href="http://www.census.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, 1960.
<a href="http://www.commerce.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Department of Commerce</a>
Gibson, Ella
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eng
Dataset
Brevard County, Florida
Flagler County, Florida
Lake County, Florida
Marion County, Florida
Orange County, Florida
Osceola County, Florida
Seminole County, Florida
Volusia County, Florida