Thanks for the link to this archive. A very welcome contribution very a propos in relation to the article.

An amateur of old hand drawn maps (Michelin road, and older).

If you enjoyed this I'd highly recommend checking out A Semiology of Graphics[0]. I was a little surprised to not see it mentioned in the article, but I recognize the article was less about types of data visualization than it was about how we create data vis.

[0]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Semiology_of_Graphics.h...