These are the cover and some inside illustrations from Kathryn Lindskoog's copy of the elegant 1918 promotional brochure describing New York City's phenomenal 1913 Woolworth Building, then the tallest building in the world. Lindskoog saved her copy of this brochure from destruction many years ago and is not aware of any other copies still existing. Later, when she read Sinclair Lewis's BABBITT for the first time (because she was teaching a class called Modern American Novels), she discovered that Lewis had obviously used this brochure when he wrote BABBITT. This is all explained in her essay "The Woolworth Connection: Sinclair Lewis, C. S. Lewis, and John Updike" in her June 2001 book SURPRISED BY C. S. LEWIS, GEORGE MACDONALD, AND DANTE. But this web page is the only place where anyone can see samples of the brochure itself.

Cover	Inner Corridor	Title Page
Exterior, daylight	Exterior, dusk	Skyline

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