This mural was created in 1941 by
Musa McKim, as an employee of the Section of Fine Arts, a program of the United States Treasury Department. The building containing the mural is not and never was an office of the United States Postal Service, so that organization cannot claim ownership of the mural following the Postal Reorganization Act of 1971 (wherein those murals located in Post Office buildings became the property of the United States Postal Service). As such, the work depicted in the photograph is public domain as the creation of a federal employee in the duties of her employ. Information regarding the commission and ownership of New Deal artwork can be found
on this fact sheet (PDF), created by the General Services Administration.
Licensing
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public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
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