Chrysler Building, New York City, 1930

Picturing America Audio Files

The following Picturing America image introductions were recorded by Karen Demers, Adult Services Librarian at the Wilbraham Public Library in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. The text of each introduction may be found within the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book, written by Linda Merrill, Lisa Rogers, and Kaye Passmore and published by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Audio Files (MP3)	Size
1A1 | unknown, Anasazi Pottery, Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon	2.98 MB
1A2 | unknown, Sikyátki polychrome bowl	1.95 MB
1A3 | María Montoya Martínez and Julian Martínez, Jar	2.51 MB
1A4 | Louisa Keyser, Beacon Lights	2.35 MB
1A5 | Carl Toolak, Baleen basket	2.08 MB
1A6 | attributed to Caesar Johnson, Gullah rice fanner basket	1.65 MB
1B | various artists, Mission Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Acuña	3.53 MB
2A | John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere	3.47 MB
3A | Grant Wood, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere	3.83 MB
3B | Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (the Lansdowne portrait)	3.86 MB
4A | Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware	4.16 MB
4B | Hiram Powers, Benjamin Franklin	4.00 MB
5A | Thomas Cole, The Oxbow	4.00 MB
5B | N.C. Wyeth, Cover Illustration for The Last of the Mohicans	4.17 MB
6A | John James Audubon, American Flamingo	4.29 MB
6B | George Catlin, Catlin Painting the Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa—Mandan	4.23 MB
7A | Thomas Cole and others, Ohio State Capitol	4.59 MB
7B | George Caleb Bingham, The County Election	3.87 MB
8A | Albert Bierstadt, Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California	3.79 MB
8B | Black Hawk, "Sans Arc Lakota" Ledger Book	3.72 MB
9A | Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field	3.34 MB
9B | Alexander Gardner, Abraham Lincoln	3.91 MB
10A | Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial	4.18 MB
11A | Thomas Eakins, John Biglin in a Single Scull	3.36 MB
11B | James McNeill Whistler, Harmony in Blue and Gold, The Peacock Room	4.09 MB
12A | John Singer Sargent, Portrait of a Boy	4.31 MB
12B | Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917	3.70 MB
13A | Walker Evans, Brooklyn Bridge, New York	3.71 MB
13B | Louis Comfort Tiffany, Autumn Landscape	3.77 MB
14A | Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party	4.01 MB
14B | Joseph Stella, Brooklyn Bridge	3.83 MB
15A | Charles Sheeler, American Landscape	3.42 MB
15B | William Van Alen, The Chrysler Building	4.31 MB
16A | Edward Hopper, House by the Railroad	4.00 MB
16B | Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater	3.56 MB
17A | Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57	3.72 MB
17B | Romare Bearden, The Dove	4.03 MB
18A | Thomas Hart Benton, The Sources of Country Music	3.96 MB
18B | Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother and Children	3.90MB
19A | Norman Rockwell, The Saturday Evening Post 1943	3.95 MB
19B | James Karales, Selma-to-Montgomery March for Voting Rights in 1965	3.89 MB
20A | Richard Diebenkorn, Cityscape I	3.73 MB