Before we move on to our weekly selection of old graphics, maps, and charts, a couple of reading suggestions about this topic. First, Susan Schulten wrote a piece for the Disunion series (The New York Times) on Edward Atkinson, who creatively used a map to demonstrate the inefficiency of slave labor.

The second suggestion goes to another find published on Brain Pickins: a set of how-to guides from the early 1900s found in a French edition of Friedrich Eduard Bilz’s 1888 naturopathic medicine guide Das Neue Naturheilverfahren (The New Natural Healing).

Here’s this week’s full selection:

The Cotton Kingdom (1653) | Edward Atkinson

(image:Edward Atkinson, 1653 )

(Via The New York Times)

How to swim (c.1900s) | Friedrich Eduard Bilz

(image: Friedrich Eduard Bilz, c.1900s)

(Via Brain Pickings)

Steam Baths (c.1900s) | Friedrich Eduard Bilz

(image:Friedrich Eduard Bilz, c.1900s )

(Via Brain Pickings)

Evesham World Map (c1400) | Evesham Abbey

(image:Evesham Abbey, c1400 )

(Via Daily Mail)

Unnamed fort town (1722) | Laurens van der Hem

(image:Laurens van der Hem, 1722 )

(Via BibliOdissey)

Map of the Square and Stationary Earth (1893) | Orlando Ferguson

(image:Orlando Ferguson, 1893 )

(Via Map Room Blog)

First Atlas of Russia (1745) | Joseph Nicolas de L’Isle

(image:Joseph Nicolas de L’Isle,  1745)

(Via David Rumsey online collection)

A Map of the Open Country of a Woman’s Heart (c. 1833–1842) | D. W. Kellogg

(image:D. W. Kellogg, c. 1833–1842 )

(Via American Antiquarian)

History of Skirt Lengths (c.1945)

(image:History of Skirt Lengths (c.1945) )

(Via Ptak Science Books)

The Mapa Cor-de-rosa: A Portuguese Empire That Never Was (1886) | Erherd Fres

(image: Erherd Fres,1886 )

(Via Strange Maps)

And in case you missed last week’s featured works:

Chinese Astronomy Map (1722) | Lü Weifan

(image:Lü Weifan, 1722 )

(Via Big Map Blog)

How a modern Brewery operates (1948) | Frank Soltesz

(image:Frank Soltesz, 1948 )

(Via Vintage Ads)

Tree of Virtues (c.1100) | Conrad of Hirsau

(image:Conrad of Hirsau,c.1100 )

(Via Walters Art Museum on Flickr)

Cosmographia World Map (1482) | Claudius Ptolemy

(image:Claudius Ptolemy, 1482 )

(Via Sci Maps)

Revelation chart (c.1925) | Frederick W. Childe

(image:Frederick W. Childe, c.1925 )

(Via Old Time Religion)

Modern Papoose (1945) | Mechanix Illustrated

(image:Mechanix Illustrated, 1945 )

(Via Modern Mechanix)

The war and taxation (1940) | The Guardian

(image:The Guardian, 1940 )

(Via The Guardian Data Blog)

A Tale of Three Maps (1944) | Fortune

(image:Fortune, 1944 )

(Via Duke University)

Mappa mundi Borgia or Tavola di Velletri (1722)

(image: Mappa mundi Borgia or Tavola di Velletri (1722) )

(Via petrus.agricola on Flickr)

Sectional view of the Torus space station (1975) | NASA

(image:NASA, 1975 )

(Via Exonauts)
We’ll be back next week with another selection of vintage visualizations. Until then, keep following our daily updates here on Visual Loop, and if you came across some old map, chart of graph, send it to us and we’ll be sure to add it to our weekly selection.