old-timey infographics from the london underground

The London Transport Museum has put up a collection of 7,000 posters dating back to the 1930’s for users to browse, allowing them to search by artist, theme, date and color (or colour, as the case may be). The collection includes a fair share of inforgraphics from the 1920s and beyond demonstrating the advantages and widespread use of mass transit at the time. As Treeugger notes, the use (or overuse) of infographics today is clearly nothing new.

Source: Think Infographics are New? At Londons Transport Museum, They Date Back to the 1920s via TreeHugger