The Inland printer
The Inland Printer is a trade periodical published in Chicago by the Inland Printer Company from 1883, aimed at printers, bookbinders and the graphic arts trade in the United States. Its pictures are mostly black-and-white trade illustrations: a cartoon of two men at a desk over a machine labelled HUMANA, a drill press and an electric motor shown in product-catalogue style, and a dry office scene with a seated man and a standing clerk. A designer might take from them the clean, high-contrast line work and the direct, diagrammatic way machines were drawn for print.
