Chicago Newspaper Union lists : embracing 1,245 of the best class of country home papers.
An 1890 advertising rate list issued by the Chicago Newspaper Union in Chicago, cataloguing 1,245 country weekly papers for advertisers and agencies buying newspaper space. The plates reproduce testimonial letterheads and billheads from patent-medicine and food companies, giving engraved company names, ruled banners, roundel seals, bearded proprietor portraits, scroll flourishes and copperplate handwriting usable as period lettering and letterhead models.
