ESSAY · ISOTYPE · NIGHTINGALE
Lessons of Isotype, part 1: "Only an Ocean Between"

The first book in the Isotype Institute’s “America and Britain” series, written by Lella Secor Florence in 1943, soon after the Neuraths reached England. I look at how its maps, weather comparisons and pictogram charts mix qualitative and quantitative information, and at the choices the charts make about race and empire.