Fletcher W. Hewes & Henry Gannett, Comparison of Industries by States, p. 2 of 2 (1883)

This page is from Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, published in 1883 under the direction of Fletcher W. Hewes and Henry Gannett. It is the second page of a two-page display, with the first page shown here. On this page, there are multiple bar graphs showing the value of products from selected industries across various states in 1880. It also has a stacked bar graph showing how the value of products made in the states changed at each Census from 1850 to 1880. The state bar graphs allow viewers to see how industries differed across states, and in which industries particular states specialized. For example, New York leads in production of clothing for men and holds nearly 84% of the production of silk across the nation, with help from the states of New Jersey and Connecticut. In reference to the Mixed Textiles industry as a whole, Hewes and Gannett wrote, "The states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusettes, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island possessed in 1880 not less than 93 per cent of the $38,000,000 of capital in this industry" (p. xcvii). Michigan clearly leads in production of sawed lumber, "one of the largest industries of the country" in 1880 (p. xcviii). In that year, over one-fifth of the entire nation's capital investments in the lumber industry were in Michigan (p. xcix).