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• Event described by Eleanor Roosevelt in her My Day column of October 2, 1944:
  In the afternoon [Friday, September 29, 1944] I went up to the Jules Laurents Studios at 2291 Broadway, to see an exhibition of war paintings done by men in the army, and lent by the War Department to the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department plans to send this exhibition to moving picture theatres all over the country so that we Americans may see what the artists in our armed forces have seen and recorded. These paintings are a record of history—history which our boys are still making day by day. These paintings will help future generations to know what war is like. I think they will also mean a great deal to our own generation, since we at home need all the help we can get to understand what war is really like.
• "First Lady Praises Army at War Art" — The New York Times, September 30, 1944