Collection Minnesota Historical Society. Lent by the Fine Arts Collection, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration. Gift of the Ah-Gwah-Ching Archive.

Oil on canvas painting of a train yard painted by Sverre Hanssen in 1936.  Hanssen was commissioned to complete the work by the Works Progress Administration.

To see more artworks produced during the Great Depression, visit the exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists, on view at the Minnesota History Center through September 30, 2012.