The Inland architect and news record
The Inland Architect and News Record was a Chicago trade periodical of 1887 published by the Inland Publishing Company for architects and builders, and these plates show interiors and equipment of the period. The interior plates show a residence hallway with a brick fireplace and a billiard room with patterned ceiling and wood paneling, both photographed in St. Louis, which a designer could use for period interior detail, while a stair with ornamental newel lamp and a Westinghouse gas engine advertisement show industrial and decorative styling of the era.
