Sir Joseph Banks Knowledge Graph Visualizations

Leather & Empire

Timeline and knowledge graph of the British tanning crisis (1773-1810). Shows Banks' network connecting Indian botanical research to Parliamentary reform.

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Temporal Network

Experimental: Years anchored left-to-right, people float based on letter connections. Watch correspondents cluster around their most active periods.

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Network Graph

Interactive force-directed network of Banks' top 120 correspondents. Drag nodes to explore, scroll to zoom. Shows both correspondence and co-mentions.

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Correspondence Flow

Bi-directional Sankey showing the top 100 people who wrote to Banks and the top 100 people Banks wrote to, organized by decade.

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Topics & Trade

Flow from decades through commodities (Plants, Seeds, Books, Leather, Metals) to geographic places mentioned in correspondence.

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Data Sources

Sutro Library T1 — 181 transcribed letters on the British leather trade (1797-1817)
Dawson 1958 — Warren Dawson's The Banks Letters: A Calendar, 6,943 letters (1765-1820)
Chambers 2008 — Neil Chambers' Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 415 correspondents

Sir Joseph Banks

Leather & Empire

Temporal Network

Network Graph

Correspondence Flow

Topics & Trade

Database Statistics

Data Sources