History | New Deal Art in Post Offices

"... President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal sponsored several art programs to help get peopleback to work and restore confidence in a nation facing 25 percent unemployment in 1933. From 1934 to 1943, the New Deal murals and sculptures seen in Post Offices were produced under the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts. Unlike the Works Progress Administration ..."   
Source: usps.com

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