Metadata linking the 25 color palettes from the Albums de Statistique Graphique to their corresponding album years, plate numbers, and David Rumsey collection reference numbers.
Format
A data frame with 25 rows and 6 variables:
- adventDay
Advent calendar day number (1-25) from original digitization
- RumseyListNo
David Rumsey Map Collection list number
- Album
Year of the album (1880-1906)
- Qty
Plate number within the album
- Type
Palette type: "Sequential", "Diverging", "Grouped", or "Category"
- link
URL to the digitized image in the David Rumsey Map Collection
Source
David Rumsey Map Collection: https://www.davidrumsey.com/
RJ Andrews Album Colors: https://github.com/infowetrust/albumcolors
Tom Shanley Observable: https://observablehq.com/@tomshanley/cheysson-color-palettes
Details
This dataset provides the mapping between the original SVG pattern files (named by Advent calendar days by RJ Andrews) and the actual album years and plate numbers from the Albums de Statistique Graphique.
The naming convention "adventDay" comes from RJ Andrews' original digitization project where he released one palette per day during December as an Advent calendar. The package uses the Album year and plate number for more intuitive palette naming (e.g., "1880_07" instead of "dec06").
Examples
# View the dataset
head(albumImages)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 6
#> adventDay RumseyListNo Album Qty Type link
#> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 1 12514. 1883 7 Diverging https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
#> 2 2 12516. 1886 8 Grouped https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
#> 3 3 12512. 1881 3 Sequential https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
#> 4 4 12516. 1886 4 Grouped https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
#> 5 5 12516. 1886 7 Category https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
#> 6 6 12511. 1880 7 Grouped https://www.davidrumsey.com/lun…
# Find information about a specific album
subset(albumImages, Album == 1880)
#> # A tibble: 2 × 6
#> adventDay RumseyListNo Album Qty Type link
#> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 6 12511. 1880 7 Grouped https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/…
#> 2 24 12511. 1880 7 Category https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/…
# Count palettes by type
table(albumImages$Type)
#>
#> Category Diverging Grouped Sequential
#> 6 2 10 7
# Get the Rumsey link for a specific palette
albumImages[albumImages$Album == 1881 & albumImages$Qty == 3, "link"]
#> # A tibble: 1 × 1
#> link
#> <chr>
#> 1 https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~309110~90078973:Ca…