Chess problems
A chess problem book compiled by George E. Carpenter and published in Rockdale, Iowa, in 1886 by O. A. Brownson for chess players solving puzzles. The pictures are plain line-and-hatched diagrams of chessboards with white and black pieces set in positions, showing sparse arrangements of queens, rooks, pawns and a king on a cross-hatched grid that a designer could borrow for a minimal board motif.
