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Comparative Views
Artistic data visualization is not new. The scholar Michael Friendly has even called 1850–1900 the “golden age of statistical graphics.” Here are six examples of one of my favorite nineteenth-century...
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Bird’s-eye Brooklyn
Details of four bird’s-eye views of Brooklyn before, during, and after the construction of the borough’s namesake bridge, which turned 130 years old this year. Clockwise from upper left, the dates are...
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Political Octopus
Octopus political cartoons: For visual propaganda, cephalopods—octopi and squid—are among the most metaphorically useful animals. Formerly maligned as “devilfish” or “monsters,” these sea creatures...
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New York City in 10½ Historical Maps
Few cities have, from their beginning, been mapped as beautifully as New York City, especially its island heart, Manhattan. The following 10½ historical maps (the final one being a composite of two...
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Tree of Slavery
Extralegal violence committed by white men in the name of patriotism is one of the oldest civic traditions in the United States. It is unbearably fitting that the republic’s original revolutionary...
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