Stacking Shakespeare and Company Membership

Shakespeare and Company Project library membership data from 1919 to 1941 are represented as a hybrid of time-series and stacked bar charts showing part-to-whole relationships made from paper and folding. Each unit, a cuboid in space and sometimes its stacking child, represents one year and displays nine variables for that year. The height corresponds to the number of active subscribers recorded in the logbooks; the depth depicts the number of members with borrowing activity, according to each member’s lending library card; the length along the timeline is based on the total number of borrowing events. Each of the variables is split into two parts: previous patrons who have renewed a subscription contrasted with new members. The upper portion shows the growth and the activities of new readers.