From a mural series commissioned for the Cotton Exchange building. Scenes depict four cotton trade ports: New Orleans, Liverpool, Alexandria and Bombay. The murals were destroyed when the building was converted into apartments around 1975.
Christen, Barbara S., and Steven Flanders, eds., "Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain," New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2001, pg. 225.