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Headline study [?]: Illuminated letters “WHY is the economic world falling to pieces?” for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)
Headline study [?]: Illuminated letters “WHY is the economic world falling to pieces?” for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)

Headline study [?]: Illuminated letters “WHY is the economic world falling to pieces?” for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)

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Object Details

Title:
Headline study [?]: Illuminated letters “WHY is the economic world falling to pieces?” for Christian Science Monitor (January 1934)
Date:
c. 1933
Artist:
Medium:
Sanguine and black ink and graphite on paper
Dimensions
0
Classification
Periodicals
Credit Line:
Gift of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2015
Description

[below illuminated letters WHY in red ink]: is the economic world / falling to pieces?; [in the four corners of design element in red ink]: N E / W S; [verso stamp in black ink]: Property of / The Christian Science Monitor / Editorial Art Department / Date [by hand in black ink] Jan 31, 34 / File under [by hand in black ink] Oversize Drawings [verso stamp in red ink]: Please return to / Mary E. Williams / Editorial Art Department / The Christian Science Monitor / One Norway Street / Boston, Mass.

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