As part of the projects of the Works Progress Administration, federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department. In 1941, Caroline Speare Rohland painted a mural for the post office of Sylvania. The scene depicted was of a farming family and their African American farm hand. In the 1980s, complaints from the local NAACP chapter resulted in the removal of the mural. It was found in a closet of the post office in 1995 and restored. The mural is now on permanent loan from the federal government and is held by Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.
As part of the projects of the Works Progress Administration federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture later called the Section of Fine Arts of the Treasury Department In 1941 Caroline Speare Rohland painted a mural for the post office of Sylvania The scene depicted was of a farming family and their African American farm hand In the 1980s complaints from the local NAACP chapter resulted in the removal of the mural It was found in a closet of the post office in 1995 and restored The mural is now on permanent loan from the federal government and is held by Georgia Southern University in Statesboro