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Magnus-Fossum-Index-of-American-Design-1940

Photograph of WPA artist Magnus S. Fossum at work on Boston Town Coverlet for the Federal Art Project's Index of American Design Photograph appears in the online exhibit adapted from A New Deal for the Arts, an exhibit that was on display from March 28, 1997 – January 11, 1998, in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. Caption reads as follows:Magnus Fossum, a WPA artist, copying the 1770 coverlet "Boston Town Pattern" for the Index of American Design. Coral Gables, Florida, February 1940

Date
1940-02
Photographer / author
Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; photographer unknown
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
photograph
Original size
620 × 460 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Works Progress Administration).

Read from: Commons licence category: PD US WPA; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Magnus-Fossum-Index-of-American-Design-1940" (1940-02). Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project; photographer unknown, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Magnus-Fossum-Index-of-American-Design-1940.jpg

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