1790 · Handwritten Enumeration Books · Werk 685 von 1.871

A travelling enumerator on his counting round of 1790 standing in the yard of a farm in Pennsylvania in late summer, seen from behind, dismounted, in a brown wool coat, riding boots and a black felt cocked hat, holding open in his left hand a narrow merchant's account book in marbled paper boards, its pages soft in focus showing only hand-drawn column lines, a bay horse tied to a split-rail fence post beside him, on the saddle a leather saddlebag holding bundles of paper sheets of unequal sizes tied with twine, behind them a squared-log house and an open plank door onto a dark interior, low golden evening light from the right.