Tercer censo nacional de la República Argentina, 1 June 1914 (allegorical census poster)

A seated woman with the Argentine arms, a light-blue flag, an anchor, a steamship, a locomotive and a field of sheep announces the third national census. The tell is the national allegory and the Centenary wording, which attach the state's prestige to what is an administrative count.

Date: June 1, 1914
Period: Pre-1914
Made by: Comisión Nacional del Censo, Argentina (printed by the Compañía General de Fósforos, Buenos Aires)
Region: Latin America
Country: Argentina
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: De la Plaza Government
Leader: Victorino de la Plaza
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Economy and finance, Media and information
Techniques: Transfer
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (published 1914; Commons PD-US-expired, faithful reproduction)
Unknown author, 1914 Argentine census poster, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

GANADERÍA · AGRICULTURA · COMERCIO
NAVEGACIÓN · COMUNICACIONES
TRANSPORTES FLUVIALES
Y TERRESTRES

POBLACIÓN · INDUSTRIA · EDUCACIÓN
ECONOMÍA · HIGIENE
SOCIOLOGÍA

1.º de Junio 1914
REALIZACIÓN DEL
3.ER CENSO
NACIONAL
DE LA
REPÚBLICA
ARGENTINA

LEVANTADO
POR MANDATO
DE LA
CONSTITUCIÓN
Y EN CELEBRACIÓN
DEL CENTENARIO
DE LA
INDEPENDENCIA
ARGENTINA

LIT. GRAF. DE LA [illegible] GRAL. DE FÓSFOROS · B. AIRES

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

LIVESTOCK · AGRICULTURE · COMMERCE
NAVIGATION · COMMUNICATIONS
RIVER AND LAND
TRANSPORT

POPULATION · INDUSTRY · EDUCATION
ECONOMY · HYGIENE
SOCIOLOGY

1st of June 1914
CARRYING OUT OF THE
3RD NATIONAL CENSUS
OF THE
ARGENTINE
REPUBLIC

TAKEN
BY MANDATE
OF THE
CONSTITUTION
AND IN CELEBRATION
OF THE CENTENARY
OF ARGENTINE
INDEPENDENCE

LITHOGRAPHED BY THE [illegible] GENERAL OF MATCHES · BUENOS AIRES

Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. The company name in the imprint is partly illegible in the scan.