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Bank - The Woolworth Building
c. 191520th Century
5 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Toy
Medium and Support:
cast iron
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mrs. Woodward H. Griswold
Accession Number:
1968.231
Gold-bronze finished still slot bank of the Woolworth Building (built in 1913). The money is removed by unscrewing the bank. Bank popularity decreased by 1890 with the end of America's "waste not, want not" way of life and having risen in popularity with Franklin's "penny saved, penny earned" philosophy.
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