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Links that are part of the Living SchoolBook site:

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  Kennebunk, Maine
  WPA art can be found in the Kennebunk, Maine Post Office
• WPA art can be found in Newark, NY
  Shortly after becoming principal of the Newark Valley High School in 1983, Robert E. Gwinn discovered 25 paintings on school property. According to school board minutes of a meeting held September 2, 1936, the paintings were purchased from WPA headquarters in New York City. They were chosen by school administrators for their suitability to hang in an elementary or high school classroom.
• A list of WPA art in New York State (an extensive but not a complete list)

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The following links are not part of the Living SchoolBook site, but provide more examples and information on WPA Art:

• South Carolina WPA Art
• New Mexico WPA Art
• Ohio site
  "Post Office murals represent only a portion of the total body of New Deal art that decorates Ohio's public buildings. Much of it was created through the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration's Federal art project (WPA/FAP), 1935-43), the largest and best known of the Roosevelt administration's art programs."
• Ohio site with index of murals
  Excerpt from the site "This photographic collection of the Ohio Historical Society reflects thirty depression-era murals and reliefs from twenty-five of the more than sixty Ohio post offices with such historic works. The New Deal artworks were collected with the financial assistance of the Ohio Arts Council's Visual Arts and Crafts Program."
• ***NOT WORKING*** Site
• Rediscovering America
  Excerpts from site: "I am a photographer hired by a democratic government to take pictures of its land and its people. The idea is to show New York to Texans and Texas to New York.
  --Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration photographer, U.S. Camera One, 1941"
• New Deal Cultural Programs:Experiments in Cultural Democracy
  Excerpt: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal cultural programs marked the U.S. government's first big, direct investment in cultural development. In many ways, they present a mirror image of today's federal policy picture: their goals were clearly stated and democratic; they supported activities not already subsidized by private sector patrons, rather than following private patrons' leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rarefied art world."

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