John OverholtAug 6, 2023
Optometrist George Mayerle’s 1907 multicultural eye chart is a fabulous piece of graphic design in its own right. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/03/mayerles-lithographed-international-test-chart-1907/
Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart, 1907

By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart, published in 1907, was the creation of the optometrist George…

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@overholt This is rad and makes me want to live in turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco. It's also a cool snapshot of the specific immigrant populations there at that time... other melting-pot cities would have needed a different selection of languages.
Aug 7, 2023 at 5:53pmWeb