Black and white and read all over: 27 Guardian graphics from its history

April 14, 1912: The article looks at the size of the super liners with the intro: "With the White Star Titanic, the largest liner afloat, to-day midway on her maiden voyage to New York…" Three days later the liner sturck an iceberg and sank with the deaths of 1,502 people Photograph: Guardian

March 8, 1940: The war and taxation. Who was paying more in cash-strapped Britain? Photograph: Guardian

September 21, 1929: Winning the annual sheepdog championship. Note the shepherd. Underneath the graphic, the text read: "The contest is described on another page" Photograph: Guardian

October 18, 1916: Battle of the Somme - what lies before the Allies' advance. It had started on July 1, 1916 - by this stage of the battle British and French forces had suffered major losses as the battle ground to a halt. This shows what was still to come as the battle ground on for another two months. Bigger version Photograph: Guardian

November 10, 1957: How do they stay up? Just after the launch of the second Russian satellite, Sputnik 2 - which carried a dog, Layka. The Observer looks at how they work Photograph: Observer

May 31, 1903: A diagram of pauperism in Manchester. The horizontal line represents the average for the eleven years and the zigzag line year percentages above or below it Photograph: Guardian

June 3, 1901: How better to explain the latest in military thinking and new tactics for the Boer war then raging in South Africa. In this earliest infographic, the page designers did it themselves, without drawing of any kind Photograph: Guardian

March 28, 1903: "When the United States Senate last week ratified the Canal Treaty with Colombia it removed the last serious political and financial obstacle in the way of the engineers who are to construct the Panama Canal". With no pictures to hand, the page is illustrated entirely with graphics. Bigger version Photograph: Guardian

October 12, 1904: A new aquaduct in Manchester. Bigger version Photograph: Guardian

November 17, 1904: the North Sea outrage. Explanation of a Russian naval squadron firing on a group of Hull trawlers Photograph: Guardian

October 8, 1907: The new game of oval billiards explained Photograph: Guardian

July 12, 1908: The Olympic games. Brought to London from Rome at the last minute after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius devastated Naples. Lord Desborough, pictured here, was instrumental in London's role. Photograph: Guardian

February 21, 1909: Growth of British Naval Guns Photograph: Observer

May 19, 1910: 136 were killed in a mining accident at Wellington pit Photograph: Guardian

January 9, 1913: The improved Liverpool Tram Photograph: Guardian

Monday April 7, 1924: relive the Oxford v Cambridge boat race. Clever graphic showing who was winning at which stage of the race Photograph: Guardian

Februry 20, 1924: The Severn barrage is a scheme that comes up even now. Here's the 1924 version Photograph: Guardian

June 14, 1931: Mass production explained for the masses Photograph: Observer

December 29, 1934: Eleven year's changes in employment. Chronicling the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression in charts Photograph: Guardian

September 11, 1936: The Birth of planets Photograph: Guardian

September 19, 1938. Income levels of the American people Photograph: Guardian

December 2, 1938: With war only months away, the graphic showed the fall in government forrtunes in by-elections since the Munich agreement, which had effectively allowed Hitler to invade Czechoslovakia Photograph: Guardian

December 10, 1941: Cost of living in the war. Life was expensive for a Britain in the depths of the war. Photograph: Guardian

July 24, 1943: Lend-lease - The American angle. Lend-lease explained for US audiences Photograph: Guardian

June 27, 1945: A Century of Left and Right. It was the first election since before the Second Workld War and the first real test for the Labour party which had been part of the coalition government led by Conservative Winston Churchill. In the event, it was a landslide for Clement Attlee's Labour party. This chart showed how the political dice had fallen int eh decades before Photograph: Guardian

February 3, 1948: The House of Lords, new phases to an old problem. Graphic showing the changing composition of parliament Photograph: Guardian

November 15, 1957: Guide to the satellites. Working out where they can be seen. Manchester Guardian cut out and keep graphic Photograph: Guardian