Scientific American, Vol. 72, No. 13 (1895)
Scientific American, volume 72, number 13, published in New York in 1895, was a weekly periodical for a general readership of inventors, engineers and mechanically minded buyers. Its pages are dense with trade advertisements for bicycles, typewriters, telephones and machine tools alongside technical engravings. The advertisement pictures are small, crisp line drawings with bold display lettering, offering a designer ideas for period trade typography, border ornaments and boxed layouts.
