[Mural by Tom Leftin Johnson in reception room(?) on Governor's Island, New York] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Mural by Tom Leftin Johnson in reception room(?) on Governor's Island, New York], New York : Federal Art Porject W.P.A., July 19, 1938. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/78/7837d339c48d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Mural by Tom Leftin Johnson in reception room(?) on Governor's Island, New York]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Mural by Tom Leftin Johnson in reception room(?) on Governor's Island, New York]
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Taken inside a building on Governors Island, the Army post in New York Harbor, this photograph records a mural whose room is only tentatively identified, since the title was devised by Library of Congress staff and carries a question mark. The picture was made on July 19, 1938, under the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that employed artists to decorate public buildings during the Depression. Its catalog record credits the photographer as Noble, and the muralist's name appears in the title as Tom Leftin Johnson, a spelling worth checking against other sources. The image is a useful record of how federal interiors of the period were decorated.
| Created / published | New York : Federal Art Porject W.P.A., July 19, 1938. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1930-1940. |
| Notes | Photographed by Noble. Title devised by Library staff. |
| Subjects | Murals--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Interiors--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,091 × 4,117 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-210930 |
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