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[3 W.P.A. murals - Cowboy and steel worker by Victor Armantoff] – Vintage Wall Art

[3 W.P.A. murals - Cowboy and steel worker by Victor Armantoff] — historic photograph
[3 W.P.A. murals - Cowboy and steel worker by Victor Armantoff]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: [3 W.P.A. murals - Cowboy and steel worker by Victor Armantoff], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two working figures, a cowboy and a steel worker, share the frame in this photograph of a pair of WPA murals, which sets it apart from the other industry images on this board. The Works Progress Administration employed artists during the 1930s to decorate public buildings, and the caption card credits the design to Victor Armantoff, spelled that way on the card. The card gives no date, so the exact year of the photograph is uncertain. Still, the pairing of a range-riding cowboy with an industrial laborer reflects the era's effort to portray American work across its many regional occupations.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Murals; Industry...--Steel; Cowboys; Labor & laboring classes; PI--WORKS; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 861 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-129790

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