I included this image in another post some weeks ago. This is what the AIDS quilt looked like 24 years ago, in 1988, in Central Park, New York City.

The AIDS quilt today includes nearly 50,000 panels, weighs over 53 tons, and would cover 1.3 million square feet were it ever to be displayed all at once. According to a July 24, 2012, article in The Atlantic Monthly, the quilt was on display on the National Mall this summer in its entirety, but because the whole quilt is too big to fit on the Mall all at once, volunteers cycled sections on and off the lawns. The only place you can see the entire thing all in one location now is online. Photo by Mark Theissen appears courtesy of the NAMES Project Foundation.