Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies
This is a late nineteenth-century engineering society journal issued by the Association of Engineering Societies in New York for its professional membership, its plates showing American industrial and civil works. The four pages here are rotated plates: a long rail or canal-side works view captioned Worcester, Mass., a street scene of a horse-drawn or cable tram on Olive Street, a machine-shop interior with engines and pulleys, and a bare embankment or track view. A designer could take from them the dense, mechanical line-work of industrial engravings and the wide horizontal compositions of heavy infrastructure.
