WPA Mural Studies; George Washington Miniature; Japanese Balloon Bomb
Tv Series
Tv Show :
History Detectives
Season 7
Episode Number :9
Rate : Not Rated
RunTime :60 mins
Air Date :2009-08-24
Story : 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.