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America Today is a mural comprising ten canvas panels, painted with egg tempera in 1930–1931 by the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. It provides a panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, b
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Equitable Holdings, Inc. is an American financial services and insurance company that was founded in 1859 by Henry Baldwin Hyde.
America Today
…have seen and known. Every head is a real person drawn from life." The mural was painted with egg tempera on linen canvases. The mural was acquired by AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company in 1984. After two years of renovation it was installed at AXA's headquarters at 787 Seventh Avenue in New York City. In 1996 AXA moved to 1290 Avenue…
Headquarters at 1345 Avenue of the Americas
Advertisement in The World Almanac and Encyclopedia, 1904
Equitable Building at 120 Broadway on a postcard, c. 1918
A life insurance policy for President James A. Garfield written by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States on the 22nd of June, 1881, signed 9 days prior to Garfield being shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.