I think it would be very cool if the government made an NFT collection out of this and other collected works, in all seriousness. It's actually quite easy, and little to no programming is required.
This is also my first thought - USDA needs to get on the NFT game with these artworks esp since there's a historical element to these works. I'm sure there will be people who want to collect these.
These graphics have been digitized at a high resolution, so they can be infinitely, perfectly duplicated. As works of the US government they are inherently uncopyrightable, so there is no legal barrier to copying them either. Thus, these images are completely limitless. Why would you want to introduce artificial scarcity of such a resource?
