From PBS NewsHour.

Nearly 200 pieces of New Deal-era artwork once on display in our nation’s post offices are missing or significantly damaged.

A part of then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s push to raise America’s stature on the global art stage, and provide employment amidst the Great Depression, nearly 1,700 murals hung in U.S. post offices.

But over time, and as the U.S. Postal Service faced serious financial challenges, some of the art has vanished, been painted over or is unaccounted for. That’s according to new reporting from the Washington Post’s Jacob Bogage.

PBS News’ Geoff Bennett spoke with Bogage about this project and why efforts to preserve these pieces of American history haven’t materialized.

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