First Independence Bank

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A a single PDF file (.pdf) of a digital scan of a watercolor drawing from a 1973 company brochure. The digital image is black and white and depicts the interior of First Independence Bank. In the image, both tellers and customers can be seen inside the bank's lobby. Three rectangular columns in the lobby support a ceiling featuring four (4) rows of circles, while a barrier separates the tellers from the customers. This barrier is black at the bottom and white at the top, with a narrow, tiled band in the middle. On one side, patrons, many of whom carry briefcases and are dressed in business attire, can be seen, while only the heads of three tellers are visible on the other side.

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