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Lessons of Isotype, part 2: "Our Private Lives"

Lella Secor Florence’s 1944 book in the Isotype Institute’s “America and Britain” series covers births and deaths, marriage and divorce, cities, school, leisure and the cinema. Read together, its charts work as a system for presenting social and economic data, and they show Otto Neurath’s interest in film as a way to teach.