{"id":1503,"date":"2010-06-04T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-06-04T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T23:37:31","slug":"beautiful-info-graphics-from-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/beautiful-info-graphics-from-1870\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Info-Graphics From 1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/images\/church-chart.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/images\/church-chart.jpg\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t expect to find such beauty in the <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=gmd&#038;action=browse&#038;fileName=gmd370m\/g3701m\/g3701gm\/gct00008\/ct_browse.db&#038;recNum=48&#038;itemLink=r?ammem\/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701gm+gct00008))&#038;linkText=0&#038;title2=Statistical%20atlas%20of%20the%20United%20States%20based%20on%20the%20results%20of%20the%20ninth%20census%201870%20with%20contributions%20from%20many%20eminent%20men%20of%20science%20and%20several%20departments%20of%20the%20government%20Comp.%20under%20the%20authority%20of%20Congress%20by%20Francis%20A.%20Walker,%20M.%20A.,%20superintedent%20of%20the%20ninth%20census%20...&#038;displayType=3&#038;maxCols=3\">Statistical Atlas of the United States, Based on the Ninth Census (1870)<\/a> from the Library of Congress, would you?  Sophisticated data visualizations, hand-calculated and hand-engraved, in beautiful colors, prepared by a staff headed by Francis A. Walker, M. A., superintedent of the ninth census.<\/p>\n<p>The display above shows you, for each U. S. state and territory, the proportion of the church-going population (the colored boxes) relative to the total population (the shaded box in which the colored boxes are set), as well as the breakdown by the top 11 denominations!<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend that you <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/ampage?collId=gmd&#038;action=browse&#038;fileName=gmd370m\/g3701m\/g3701gm\/gct00008\/ct_browse.db&#038;recNum=48&#038;itemLink=r?ammem\/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701gm+gct00008))&#038;linkText=0&#038;title2=Statistical%20atlas%20of%20the%20United%20States%20based%20on%20the%20results%20of%20the%20ninth%20census%201870%20with%20contributions%20from%20many%20eminent%20men%20of%20science%20and%20several%20departments%20of%20the%20government%20Comp.%20under%20the%20authority%20of%20Congress%20by%20Francis%20A.%20Walker,%20M.%20A.,%20superintedent%20of%20the%20ninth%20census%20...&#038;displayType=3&#038;maxCols=3\">check out all the charts and maps!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn&#8217;t expect to find such beauty in the Statistical Atlas of the United States, Based on the Ninth Census (1870) from the Library of Congress, would you? Sophisticated data visualizations, hand-calculated and hand-engraved, in beautiful colors, prepared by a staff headed by Francis A. Walker, M. A., superintedent of the ninth census. The display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,61,199,9,7,339,680,166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}