History Detectives

WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb (7x9)

Exibido em:: Ago 24, 2009

Items look at include six paintings by Thelma Johnson Streat, which may have been mural studies commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or '40s; a 1790 miniature color portrait of a "G. Washington" which was found stored above a Manhattan tavern in a box of documents; and a scrap of material believed to have come from a Japanese balloon bomb used during WWII.