Recording a colorful past - DPLA - e93addf3d629a4c111b7c3b2374a5092

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Recording a colorful past - DPLA - e93addf3d629a4c111b7c3b2374a5092

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Title from item.; Additional information on back of item: WPArtist [sic] Sam Hershey putting finishing touches to one of three historic murals for Rockport Town Hall. This panel depicts (upper left) Ebenezer Babson (ancestor of statistician Roger W.) killing a bear, (lower left) Champlain meeting local Indians, (center) original settler Richard Tarr, (upper right) Anthony Thacher saved from shipwreck (on island now bearing his name), and (lower right) pirates burying treasure in local "Gully."; Date from item.; Federal Art Project, Work Projects Administration for Massachusetts, Federal Works Agency.

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