As we welcome another fresh week, it’s time to take a journey into the past of information design, with our regular selection of vintage maps, charts and graphs. It’s now been over a month since we launched this series of posts and the feedback has been great, so thank you!
Besides gathering these examples of ancient data visualization, we also try to feature interesting links to posts, websites and galleries focused on this topic. Last week, popular website Brainpickings posted the works from Edward Livingston Youmans (1821-1887), and it’s worth the read.
Here’s our selection:
How you may live and travel in the city of 1950 (c.1925) | Popular Science Monthly
(image:Popular Science Monthly, c.1925 )
(Via Retronaut)
World’s Coal Production (1920) | The World Book
(image:The World Book, 1920 )
(Via Eric Fischer on Flickr)
The Miracle of the Bar Bells (1952) | Mechanix Illustrated
(image:Mechanix Illustrated,1952 )
(Via Modern Mechanix)
Plan of the Solar System (1835) | F.J. Huntington
(image:F.J. Huntington, 1835)
(Via William Creswell on Flickr)
Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination (1854) | Edward Livingston Youmans
(image:Edward Livingston Youmans, 1854 )
(Via Brainpickings)
Volvox minor (1883) | Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port
(image:Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port, 1883 )
(Via BibliOdissey)
Space: The Architecture of the Universe (1962) | Gottfried Honegger
(image:Gottfried Honegger, 1962 )
(Via Aqua Velvet)
The Olympic games (1908) | The Guardian
(image:The Guardian, 1908 )
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
Mississippi Map (c.1878) | Encyclopedia Britannica
(image:Encyclopedia Britannica,c.1878 )
(Via Andy Brill on Flickr)
The Human Body (1959) | Cornelius De Witt
(image:Cornelius De Witt,1959 )
(Via krakencrafts on Flickr)
And last week’s featured works:
Map of predominating sex (1872) | Francis Amasa Walker
(image:Francis Amasa Walker ,1872)
(Via Mapping the Nation)
Aviation in Perspective (1917) | S. W. Clatworthy
(image:S. W. Clatworthy,1917 )
(Via Prafulla)
United States and Great Britain in the World (1946) | P. Sargant Florence and Lella Secor Florence
(image:P. Sargant Florence and Lella Secor Florence,1946 )
(Via Brainpickings)
Rise of agricultural production, 1956-1960 (1982)
(image:Rise of agricultural production,1956-1960 )
(Via Ripetungi)
Mobile Pill-Box Fortress Mounts Two Six-Inch Guns (1940) | Popular Science
(image: Popular Science,1940)
(Via Modern Mechanix)
Magellanica (1616) | Petrus Bertius
(image:Petrus Bertius,1616 )
(Via Strange Maps)
The Moon’s Phases (c. 1840s) | Charles F Blunt
(image:Charles F Blunt,c. 1840s )
(Via BibliOdissey)
Space Patrol (1851) | Frank Tinsley
(image:Frank Tinsley, 1851 )
(Via James Vaughan on Flickr)
The House of Lords (1848) | The Guardian
(image:The Guardian, 1848)
(Via The Guardian Data Blog)
We’ll be back next week with another selection of vintage visualizations. Until then, keep following our posts here on Visual Loop.
Written by Tiago Veloso
Tiago Veloso is the founder and editor of Visualoop and Visualoop Brasil . He is Portuguese, currently based in Bonito, Brazil.
