The Inland printer
The Inland Printer was a periodical published in Chicago from 1883 by the Inland Printer Company for American printers, bookbinders and graphic arts workers. Its pictures include a printing press drawn in side elevation, a foot-treadle machine on a tall stand, and decorative Art Nouveau headers labelled Advertising and Pressroom, which show how a trade journal organised its sections and equipment. A designer could take from them the mechanical line drawing style of trade machinery and the stylised lettered banners of early twentieth-century trade print.
