Le Congo illustré
Le Congo illustré is an illustrated periodical published in Brussels in 1891, covering the ethnology and exploration of the Congo for a Belgian readership. Its pages pair dense French type with black-and-white engravings and photographs: a hilly landscape with a column of figures, a banana plant in the foreground, a spiny euphorbia shrub with a figure beside it, and a group of African women and girls in white habits at a mission school. A designer could take from them the period halftone and engraving look, strong contrast between tropical foliage and printed text, and the layout of text set beside framed images.
