The American front
A 1919 New York illustrated book by Ernest Clifford Peixotto, published by C. Scribner's Sons, recording the American front in the First World War through artist's drawings of its places and scenes. The pictures are pencil and wash sketches of damaged villages, a rocky monastery cell with a soldier, and a ruined church with timber-framed houses, most printed sideways on the page. A designer could take loose, sketchy tonal drawing of war-damaged architecture and rubble as a model for reportage-style layouts.
