The Inland architect and news record
The Inland Architect and News Record is a Chicago trade periodical published by the Inland Publishing Company in 1887, aimed at architects, builders and contractors. Its pages mix photographic plates of recent buildings, such as a Chicago commercial block and a Binghamton church, with trade advertisements for stock, contractors and sidewalk lights. A designer could take from it the plain, documentary look of late nineteenth-century American architectural photography, with its dense stone and brick facades, serif captions and small-print advertising layouts.
