Graphic Specimens

A virtual file cabinet of maps, charts, diagrams, data visualizations and other related curiosities.

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Soviet continuous work week calendar, 1930.

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Temperature and mortality rate in London (1840–50) by epidemiologist William Farr

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Vietnamese passport, 1961.

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Chinese atlas, circa 1950s

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Fortune magazine 1939, WWII production output cartogram

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Mercury map, circa 1969 (detail)

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Michelin Man logo, Michelin map

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Dymaxion projection, Herbert Bayer atlas 1953 (detail)

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Smith chart

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Atomic bomb damage diagram

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Japanese world map (detail)

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Philadelphia axonometric map (detail)

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Utah geological map legend (detail)

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Military flight test thrust-climb relationship diagram

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Geologic Map of the Lakshmi Planum Quadrangle (V–7), Venus (detail)

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Soil map, Atlas of American Agriculture, 1936

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34th Street / Herald Square subway station layout