This image is created with black ink on paper A street runs through the center of the composition rising into a viaduct in the middle ground On the street are automobiles and figures At the left of the street is a building in the foreground with a power line standing in front of it A figure sits in front of the building near the base of the power pole At the right of the street are power lines a rail car and Sloss Furnaces including a casting ched a blast furnace and a series of smokestacks and cooling towers The sky in the image is clouded with smog

Sloss Furnaces

Richard Blauvelt Coe

About 1935

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