Top Left:
Detail. Thirty-first floor decoration based on radiator cap and hubcap designs
Photograph by Scott Murphy, Ambient Images, Inc.
Bottom Left:
Art Deco elevator doors at the Chrysler Building
© Nathan Benn/CORBIS
Middle:
Chrysler Building, New York City, 1930
Photographic print
Library of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Top Right:
Detail. Steeple of the Chrysler Building in New York
© Photo Company/zefa/CORBIS
Bottom Right:
Detail. Workers waterproofing Art Deco stainless
steel eagle ornament of sixty-first floor
© Nathan Benn/CORBIS
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About Picturing America:
Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.