Chicago stereotype works;
A Chicago type-founder's specimen book from 1889, issued by a commercial stereotype foundry to show its printing types and stereotype work to printers and buyers. The pictures are plain black-line illustrations in a narrative serial style, with a young woman seated at a café table, a struggle in a room with a broom, a nurse-like figure on a park bench, and two women walking past a fence. A designer might take their clean, even line weight and simple vignette framing as a model for spot illustration.
