Samuel Margolies (b. 1898)
Bridge to Babylon, 1949
etching and aquatint, 2 5/8 x 3, signed
Miniature Print Club
UAM 1992.127

This publication of the Miniature Print Club, one of many specialized print marketingorganizations, appropriately miniaturizes a standard subject. New York was often called "Babylon," a reflection of its size and loud diversity. The way the worker is posed to suggest his equality with the office towers is also typical.