Scientific American, Vol. 76, No. 20 (1897)
Scientific American, volume 76, number 20, from 1897, was a weekly American periodical for engineers, inventors and general technical readers, filled with trade advertisements. Its pages are dense newsprint columns of classified and display ads for telephones, bicycles, engines, cameras and tools. A designer could take its crowded hierarchy of bold headlines, boxed ad frames and small-caps type for period-style layouts.
