Fletcher W. Hewes & Henry Gannett, Comparison of Industries by States, p. 1 of 2 (1883)

This page from Scribner's Statistical Atlas of the United States, published in 1883 under the direction of Fletcher W. Hewes and Henry Gannett, has bar graphs showing the value of products from selected industries across nine states in 1880: Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin. It is the first page of a two-page display, with the second page shown here. The display allows viewers to easily see and compare states' leading industries. For example, the first bar graph shows that Pennsylvania produced over $145 million worth of iron and steel in 1880, which, as Hewes and Gannett noted, made its product "over 50 percent of the whole country" (p. xcvi). Chicago was the undisputed capital of the slaughtering and meatpacking industry in the United States, as represented by the bar graph for Illinois, and midwestern states like Minnesota, Indiana, and Wisconsin built flouring and grist mills to process the wheat from regional farms and then transport their products to other parts of the country.