One of the year's biggest datasetsHere is a cheery, festive one for you!
One of the biggest datasets we received in 2018 is a fascinating collection of Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. It contains over 2000 images relating to the plague that broke out in 1855 in Southwest China (Yunnan) and raged across the globe until 1959. These photographic documents provide diverse perspectives on the pandemic, and established a new field of vision, what we may call “epidemic photography” which continues to inform the way in which we see, depict and imagine epidemics and their social, economic, and political impact in the age of Global Health. This digital image from the collection, Plague Control, is by an unknown author, © Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen And, er... season's greetings? |