Chrysler building, the art deco masterpiece in archival photos | Art and design

Thu 10 Jan 2019 10.52EST Last modified on Thu 10 Jan 2019 11.22EST Photograph: Oscar Graubner/The Life Images Collection/Getty Images Photograph: Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photograph: Museum of the City of New York/Byron Collection/Getty Images

Chrysler building, the art deco masterpiece – in archival photos

Main image: View of Manhattan, 1957. Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images

Thu 10 Jan 2019 10.52 EST Last modified on Thu 10 Jan 2019 11.22 EST

  • American photographer and journalist Margaret Bourke-White perches on an eagle head gargoyle at the top of the Chrysler building and focuses a camera, New York, 1935

  • View of the tower of the Chrysler building under construction, New York, 1929

  • High-angle view of a worker sitting on a steel girder high atop the Chrysler building, on the 54th floor, during its construction in New York

  • The Chrysler building, in the background, became a popular backdrop in photographs. Here, Larry Schwanzer demonstrates his prowess on the home-made trampoline built by Larry and his buddies on the roof of the Madison Square Boys’ Club

  • The top of the Chrysler building and the roof of the Pan Am building, foreground, in Manhattan are seen above the fog on 13 February 1984

  • View of the Chrysler building, New York, 1931

  • A female passenger on a bus traveling over the 59th Street bridge to Queens looks out south on to the hazy New York City midtown skyline, 1940s. Prominent structures include the Daily News building, left, the Empire State building, center, in the background, and the Chrysler building ,right

  • View of the crown and spire of the Chrysler building, with its arches, triangular windows, and steel cladding, New York, mid-20th century

  • From Vogue 1972. Model in an elevator in New York’s Chrysler building, holding a white cat

  • Automobiles at the Chrysler building inside its showroom, 1936

  • View of Manhattan looking east from atop the RCA building and at the Chrysler building, center, 1957
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