Three Women and a Bank Robber 1920s Pencil Drawing on Bank Stationary English woolen sampler Oilcloth (also known as American

Oilcloth (also known as American cloth) was traditionally made through a fairly labor-intensive process of treating close-woven cotton or linen cloth (I believe this is linen) with a coating of boiled linseed oil to make it waterproof

Very skillfully done

published by Reinhold Publishing Co

and which continued to operate and export its wares until the 1980s

Three Women and a Bank Robber 1920s Pencil Drawing on Bank Stationary English woolen sampler Oilcloth (also known as AmericanThe drawing of the girl at the bottom with fantastic skirt extending many times wider than her outstretched arms is what first sold me on this, but really I think its perfection lies in the interplay of all of its parts. I understand from the seller I purchased this from that the artist was an employee at the Bedford National Bank in Bedford, Iowa, and the use of the letterhead is definitely part of what makes this great, giving specificity to the