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What We Can Learn From a Vintage Visualization of Global Migration
A French archival map represents global migration circa 1858 in strikingly similar ways to how researchers do it today.
Earlier this year, CityLab's John Metcalfe wrote about Austrian researchers who created a beautiful visualization of global migration patterns:
But what if we went back another 150 years, to 1858? A French archival map, courtesy the Library of Congress, traces where people were coming from and where they were headed at that time. The map reveals some striking similarities, as well as some notable differences from global migration patterns today.