The Thorne Type-Setting Machine
The Thorne Type-Setting Machine is a trade catalogue issued in 1894 by the Thorne Type-Setting Machine Company of Hartford, Connecticut, to sell its typesetting machines to printers. Its pictures show a front view of the machine with a chair beside it, the company's factory building on the cover, and workers in a factory milling department. A designer might take from them the plain line-drawing style of 1890s machinery illustration and the cluttered, ornate Art Nouveau lettering of the title page.
