From 1860 to 1890, wages are based on the investigation made by the Department of Labor for the senate committee investigating prices and wages, and reported in Senate Document 1394. Wages from 1890 to 1907 are based on Bulletin 77 of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and from 1907 to 1913 on unpublished data of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, prepared for the San Francisco Exposition. Figures since 1913 are estimated from reports of manufacturing establishments in New York state, reports of wages paid by the United States Steel Corporation, and reports of the Bureau of Labor Statistics as to wages existing in cotton goods, men’s clothing, lumber, and furniture industries. It is believed that the figures since 1913 are roughly accurate, but that they may have to be revised to make them comparable with the preceding series. Farm-hand wages are derived from the December, 1919, Monthly Crop Reporter of the Bureau of Crop Estimates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. ● Enclosed blackletter font in =equals=.