A Quick Look at San Francisco's Historic Murals | KQED Arts

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Commissioned as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal that specifically created paying work for artists, San Francisco's al fresco murals provide a vivid glimpse of workers' lives in factories and fields, while also capturing the chaotic edginess of street life in the tumultuous times of the Great Depression.

Video by Jeremy Raff.

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