Plot: 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

History Detectives - Season 7 - WPA Mural Studies; George Washington Miniature; Japanese Balloon Bomb (Episode 9)
Episode Aired On:
Monday, August 24 2009
15 years ago
Monday, August 24 2009
15 years ago