Connections

Dendrograms, organizational charts, hierarchies, networks, systems and flows.

This collection contains rare or previously lesser-, or entirely unknown information graphics and data visualization which show organizations, hierarchies, networks, systems. The collection is constantly growing. For the best resolution available, click on the link in the caption! The images are presented in chronological order.

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Francisco de Salinas: Generis Chromatici Dispositio (The chromatic scale). In Francisco de Salinas: De Musica libri septem. Salamanca: Mathias Gastius, 1577, p. 119. Image courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de Espana. Public domain. Type: arc diagram

Jan Schorkens: Arbol geneálogico de la Monarquía española. ca. 1622. Image courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de Espana/BNE Digital. Public domain. Type: genealogical tree

Detail of a silsilename scroll from the early 18th century, from the reign of sultan Mustafa II (r. 1695–1703) with later additions. Image courtesy of Christie’s. Type: genealogical chart. Article on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: A look into the world of magnificent Ottoman silsilenames

Johann Georg Wagler and Joseph Carl Weber: Natürliches System der Amphibien, Tafeln. Erstes Heft. München, Stuttgart, Tübingen: Cotta, 1830. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Type: polar dendrogram

Uknown: Radice etimologica (Etymological root). Genealogical table of Francis IV of Modena and Maria Beatrix of Savoy. ca. 1840. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Type: tree

Michel Eugene Chevreul et M. Jacobs: Distribution de Connaisances Humaines du Ressort de la Philosphie Naturelle. In Alexandre Vuillemin: Atlas du Cosmos: Contenant les cartes Géographiques, Physiques, Thermiques, Climatologiques, Magnétiques, Geológiques, Botaniques, Agricoles Astronomiques, etc applicables a tous les ouvrages des sciences Physiques et Naturelles et particuliérement aux oeuvres D'Alexandre Houmboldt et de François Arago. Paris: Guerin, 1867, p. 57. Image courtesy of Biblioteca Nacional de Espana/BNE Digital. Public domain. Type: network diagram

Manuel Ortega Antonio Reyes: Sinoptic Chart of Natural History (Cuadro Sinóptico de la Historia Natural). 1877. Image courtesy of Digital Library of Mexico. Public domain. Type: genealogical tree. Article on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: Illustrating natural history by a Mexican naturalist.

Cristóbal Ortiz: Cuadro de la red telegráfica. Ciudad de Mexico: Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas, 1884. Image courtesy of Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico. Public domain. Type: network

Wenceslao Esteban y Díaz: Árbol genealógico cronológico-histórico de los soberanos de España. Madrid: Imp. y Lit. N. González, Princesa, 19. 1886. Image courtesy of Biblioteca de la Real Academia de História. Public domain. Country: Spain. Scope: Spain. Type: genealogical chart/network

Ernst Tiessen: Einheitskarten Nr. 2. - Eisenbahntransporte von Kohle und Koks 1913. In Dr. A. Petermann's Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anst, 64. Jahrgang, Band 42. Appendix. Image courtesy of Library of Jena University. Public domain. Type: network diagram

From left to right. 1. Scheme of the Former Ministry of Finance 2. Scheme of Central Institutions 3. Project of the Newest Reorganization of the People's Commissariat of Finance. In Social Revolution and Finance: A Collection for the Third Congress of the Communist International / People's Commissariat of Finance. - Moscow: First Moscow Factory for Procurement of State Notes, 1921. Image courtesy of Russian State Library. Public domain. Type: tree, organogram

Graphische Darstellung des öffentlichen Gesundheitswesens im Staate Hamburg. In Bericht über die medizinische Statistik des Hamburgischen Staates - bis zum Jahre 1927 einschl. Image courtesy of Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky. Public domain. Type: organogram

Julian Suski: Chart of the organization of state authorities and offices as of November 1, 1928, prepared by the Ministerial Counselor to the Minister of Internal Affairs. 1928. Image courtesy of Archiwum Państwowe w Radomiu. Public domain. Type: organogram

Nesta Helen Webster: Chart of the Socialist Network. In Nesta H. Webster: The Socialist Network. London: Boswell, 1926. Image courtesy of Archive.org. Public domain. Type: organogram

Zoltán Magyary et. al.: A belügyi igazgatás szerkezete. (The structure of the administration of the internal affairs). In A magyar közigazgatás atlasza (Atlas of the Hungarian State Administration). Budapest: Magyar Királyi Belügyminisztérium, 1934. III/b tábla. Image courtesy of Dániel Takács/Library of ELTE Faculty of Law/Tripton. Public domain. Type: organogram

Uknown: Schematische Dartsellung der für die Auswanderung Anzulafenden Amter und Organisationen (Schematic representation of the offices and organizations to be contacted for emigration). Detail of the Nazi poster of Die Jüdische Wanderung aus der Ostmark. 1939. Image courtesy of ÖNB. Public domain. Type: flow chart

Zoltán Magyary: The Hungarian General Credit Bank’s interests in economic life. ca. 1940. Image courtesy of the Library of the National University of Public Service. Public domain. Type: organizational chart

Zoltán Magyary: Overview of the Centralization of the Hungarian Administration. 1943. Image courtesy of Library of the National University of Public Service. Public domain. Type: circular dendrogram

Network diagram of the Young Communists League of Greece/Greek National Resistance. 1943. Image courtesy of Contemporary Social History Archives of Greece. Public domain. Type: network diagram. Article on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities: Fragments of a Greek epic on resistance.

György Markos: The Commercial Bank - The Fortress of the Fifty Families (A Kereskedelmi Bank - az ötven család vára) In György Markos: 50 Families and their Servants. Budapest: Szikra, 1947. Own copy. Type: network diagram.