This image is created with black ink on yellowed paper. It represents the façade of “The Bank for Savings & Trusts.” In the lower portion of the image a sidewalk is seen, and people have been drawn onto the sidewalk in graphite.

The Bank for Savings & Trusts

Richard Blauvelt Coe

About 1935

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