Transcription

The record

Document: One page of the 1930 U.S. Census, Fifteenth Census—Population Schedule, Philadelphia, Ward 42, Enumeration District 51-1038 (scanned sideways). The Wesemann household is on lines 20–25, at 5715 [N. 4th St.].

Language: English

Transcription conventions: on printed forms, pre-printed text is set in roman and handwritten entries in \italic\; wholly handwritten registers and lists are set in roman. Square brackets mark editorial matter: [?] follows an uncertain reading, [illegible] marks unread text, [blank] marks an unfilled field, and bracketed descriptions record stamps, marks, and annotations. Spelling, abbreviation, and capitalisation follow the original; nothing is corrected. On census and register pages that carry many unrelated entries, the page heading and the target household or entry are transcribed in full; the extent of what is and is not transcribed is stated on each page.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE—BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. FIFTEENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1930. POPULATION SCHEDULE.

State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Incorporated place Philadelphia City Ward of city 42 Block No. 839 Enumeration District No. 51-1038 Supervisor’s District No. 28 Sheet No. 42 A [42 written above a struck-through number]

Enumerated by me on April 14, 1930, Helen I. Gerhart [?], Enumerator.

[Other columns blank for these lines. Numbers written by census coders in the code columns are omitted. Other households on the page are not transcribed.] [Veteran columns not read.]

Transcriber’s notes

Ruth has left the household (she married Nicholas Reitter Jr. on 27 July 1929). The children listed are Naomi (18), George Foster (16, entered as “George Jr”), Elmer F. (11), and Emma (6, born 25 November 1923).

George and both working children were not at work on the day before enumeration; the entries 16-3A, 17-3A, and 18-3A are line references to the unemployment schedule. This fits the family account that George was often out of work in the Depression and later lost the house.

His age at first marriage reads 33.

Mary’s father born in Pennsylvania and mother in Germany agree with 1920 on the father and correct “Prussia” to Germany for the mother.

Grade: PRIMARY.