NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Scaffolding, blank wall which has been marked off and squares drawn for enlarging of sketch - close-up of Diego Rivera painting - Rivera talking to couple - Rivera tracing and changing final drawing on wall - partially completed mural on wall, scaffolding - blank wall - scaffolding. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Workers on scaffolding in front of blank wall - scaffolding and wall. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Artists on scaffolding sketching figures on paper, transferring sketches to wall. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Views of wall with partially completed industrial mural on it, Diego Rivera on scaffolding, at work - woman sketching beside fountain - views of sections of mural, Rivera at work - woman on scaffolding - views of building interior, industrial mural - sections of mural on walls of very large room. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Panoramic views of sections of mural - large columns in entrance to room. [1933]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Worker plastering over final drawing on wall - Diego Rivera on scaffolding painting mural - full scale drawing hanging from scaffolding, Rivera painting - worker drawing preliminary drawing on wall - Rivera painting - close-up Rivera - view of wall, partially completed mural, scaffolding - Rivera painting - close-ups of several sections of mural - wall, mural, canvas hanging on part of scaffolding. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Close-up views of several sections of industrial mural on walls - woman on scaffolding - woman talking to Diego Rivera - partially completed section of mural, scaffolding - Rivera at work, woman watching - woman climbing down from scaffolding, man standing near scaffolding, Rivera at work - worker sifting powder, picking up handfuls of sifted and un-sifted powder, comparing them - worker adding water to powder, dumping mixture onto table and beating it with mallet, adding another powder to mixture, mixing it with hoe, mixing it with hands and trowel - panoramic views of different sections of mural. [1933]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Close-ups of mural detail - Diego Rivera on scaffolding painting - views of Rivera and assistant transferring cartoon to wall - close-ups of cartoons - wall, partially completed sections of mural and cartoons from balcony opposite - views of Rivera on scaffolding at work, sections of partially completed mural. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Worker on scaffolding plastering over sketchings on wall - panoramic view of room, scaffolding, blank walls, small pool and ferns in center of room - drawings tacked to wall - workers constructing scaffolding, pool, fountain, ferns - spectators in balcony - worker transferring drawings to wall. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Close-up of full scale and color cartoons hanging on wall - worker tracing cartoon - worker making pattern of cartoon - Diego Rivera on floor of room carrying a level, a triangle and a plumb bob - Rivera hanging plumb bob from beam on scaffolding, pointing at mural wall - workers on scaffolding leveling and tacking sheets of paper to wall over final cartoon - Rivera using plumb bob to sight with and giving directions for lining up paper - Rivera on floor from above, fountain - worker tracing final cartoon onto paper on wall - rolling up paper - final cartoon being traced in heavy lines - partially completed mural on wall - close-up of powdered paint and putty knife, worker mixing paint - worker mixing paint on board - paint brushes in can, small round tray spattered with paint sample. [1932]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Partially completed industrial mural on wall, scaffolding, workers - room housing industrial mural as seen through iron latticework, fountain in center of room - scenes of various sections of mural - close-up of tablet in hands of figure, ‘These Frescoes painted between July 25, 1932 and March 13, 1933 while Doctor William R. Valentiner was director of the Art Institute are the gift to the city of Detroit of Mr. Edsel B. Ford, president of the Art Commission’ - spectators near large columns in room - close-up of portrait of Henry Ford - scenes of sections of mural. [1933]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Several close-up views of Diego Rivera painting - spectators in balcony watching, scaffolding - Rivera on scaffolding painting - Rivera painting on canvas attached to scaffolding, partially completed mural - Rivera at work - spectators watching from balcony - Rivera painting on canvas, sketching on wall, painting on canvas hung from wall, sketching. [1932]