The Weekly checker journal
The Weekly Checker Journal, edited by James Patrick Reed and published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1891, was a periodical for players of checkers (draughts). The pictures are plain board diagrams with black and white pieces drawn on hatched and open squares, labelled white at one edge and black at the other, giving a designer a clean grid of checkerboard patterns and stacked disc pieces to adapt for game or puzzle graphics.
