The Inland architect and news record
The Inland Architect and News Record is an 1887 Chicago trade periodical from the Inland Publishing Company, aimed at architects and builders, and its plates show American buildings photographed as halftones. The pictures are sepia architectural photographs of a brick residence with a bay window and stone steps, a rotated view of a tall tower with a steep roof, and a railway depot with a long platform. A designer might take from them the period vocabulary of Victorian brick houses, bay windows, and corner towers, plus the sober tonal look of 1880s photographic reproduction.
