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A portion of the Chrysler Building's ceiling mural depicts the muscular back of a worker set in a background of almost Persian intricacy.

I was pointing the camera straight up at the ceiling when I made this image; and you can see in the bottom fifth of the picture the lobby's dark red, Moroccan marble wall and the top of an Art Deco light fixture.

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Copyright: © Bill Wisser, All Rights Reserved
Image Size: 3705x5557 / 40.0MB; 1930s 20th Century American 42nd Street Art Deco Chrysler Building Forty-second Street historic preservation iconic icon Manhattan Edward Trumbull New York New York City New York State nineteen thirties painting mural Twentieth Century travel photographer
Contained in galleries: Manhattan Modern

A portion of the Chrysler Building's ceiling mural depicts the muscular back of a worker set in a background of almost Persian intricacy.<br />
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I was pointing the camera straight up at the ceiling when I made this image; and you can see in the bottom fifth of the picture the lobby's dark red, Moroccan marble wall and the top of an Art Deco light fixture.