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Inside Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill
The rotunda at the base of Coit Tower is a quiet place to sit and enjoy the works of master painters, commissioned in 1933 by the WPA, to create huge murals of the "American Scene". The marvelous and contraversial murals depict both the good and the bad of depression-era life. In the section shown here by Victor Arnautoff, a man can be seen being held up at gunpoint while nearby a policemen directs traffic, oblivious to the mugging. Other themes include agriculture, education, urban and rural life, social protest, and New Deal idealism.
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