List of United States post office murals
United States post office murals were produced in the United States from 1934 to 1943, through commissions from the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury. The principal objective was to secure artwork that met high artistic standards[1] for public buildings, where it was accessible to all people.[2] The murals were intended to boost the morale of the American people suffering from the effects of the Depression by depicting uplifting subjects the people knew and loved.[3]
Murals produced through the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture (1934–43) were funded as a part of the cost of the construction of new post offices, with 1% of the cost set aside for artistic enhancements.[4] Murals were commissioned through competitions open to all artists in the United States.[5] Almost 850 artists were commissioned to paint 1371 murals, most of which were installed in post offices;[4] 162 of the artists were women and three were African American.[4] The Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–38), which provided artistic decoration for existing Federal buildings, produced a smaller number of post office murals.[1] TRAP was established with funds from the Works Progress Administration. The Section supervised the creative output of TRAP, and selected a master artist for each project. Assistants were then chosen by the artist from the rolls of the WPA Federal Art Project.[6]: 62–63
Artists were asked to paint in an "American scene" style, depicting ordinary citizens in a realistic manner. Abstract and modern art styles were discouraged. Artists were also encouraged to produce works that would be appropriate to the communities where they were to be located and to avoid controversial subjects.[5] Projects were closely scrutinized by the Section for style and content, and artists were paid only after each stage in the creative process was approved.[6]
The Section and the Treasury Relief Art Project were overseen by Edward Bruce, who had directed the Public Works of Art Project (1933–34). They were commission-driven public work programs that employed artists to beautify American government buildings, strictly on the basis of quality.[2][6]: 58–59 This contrasts with the work-relief mission of the Federal Art Project (1935–43) of the Works Progress Administration, the largest of the New Deal art projects. So great was its scope and cultural impact that the term "WPA" is often mistakenly used to describe all New Deal art, including the U.S. post office murals.[2][6]: 63–64
The murals are the subject of efforts by the United States Postal Service to preserve and protect them. This is particularly important and problematical as some of them have disappeared or deteriorated. Some are ensconced in buildings that are worth far less than the artwork.[7]
Alabama[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Atmore | The Letter Box | Anne Goldthwaite | 1938 | |||
Brewton | Logging | 1939 | oil on canvas missing |
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Enterprise | Saturday in Enterprise | Paul Arlt | 1941 | The Enterprise post office was torn down in 1991. The mural now hangs in the Enterprise Public Library. | ||
Eutaw | The Countryside | Robert Gwathmey | 1941 | Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 | ||
Fairfield | Spirit of Steel | 1938 | [10] | |||
Fort Payne | Harvest at Fort Payne | Harwood Steiger | 1938 | In 2001, it was moved to Hunt Hall, part of the Hosiery Museum. | ||
Hartselle | Cotton Scene | 1941 | This mural now hangs in the Hartselle Chamber of Commerce. | |||
Haleyville | Reforestation | 1940 | tempera on gesso missing |
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Luverne | Cotton Field | Arthur Getz | 1942 | |||
Bay Minette | Removal of the County Seat from Daphne to Bay Minette | Hilton Leech | 1939 | |||
U.S. Post Office (Montevallo), Montevallo | Early Settlers Weighing Cotton | 1938 | Included in University of Montevallo Historic District | 1990 CP | ||
Monroeville | Harvesting | 1939 | ||||
Oneonta | Local Agriculture-A.A.A. 1939 | 1939 | ||||
Ozark | Early Industry of Dale County | John Kelly Fitzpatrick | 1938 | [11] | ||
Phenix City | Cotton | John Kelly Fitzpatrick | 1939 | missing | ||
Russellville | Shipment of the First Iron Produced in Russellville | 1938 | ||||
Tuskegee | The Road to Tuskegee | Anne Goldthwaite | 1937 | |||
Tuscumbia | Chief Tuscumbia Greets the Dickson Family | Jack McMillen | 1939 |
Alaska[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anchorage Post Office and Courthouse |
Alaskan Scenes | 1946 | oil on wall behind the judge's bench. Commissioned by the Works Progress Administration in 1942. Completed in 1946, but not "installed until the 1950s. Five murals were planned for the courtroom, but only the Kerrick mural was completed and installed. Art conservator Peter Malarkey restored the mural in 1993."[13][14] |
1978 78000516 | ||
Wrangell | Untitled | Austin Mecklem and Marianne Appel | 1944 |
Arizona[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona |
Communication During the Period of Exploration | Oscar Berninghaus | 1939 | 83002993[17] | ||
Spanish Explorers and American Indians | Oscar Berninghaus | 1939 | ||||
Progress of the Pioneer, Crossing the Desert | 1937 | |||||
Progress of the Pioneer, the Arrival of the U.S. Mail Coach | La Verne Nelson Black | 1937 | ||||
Safford | History of the Gila Valley | Seymour Fogel | 1942 | 6 murals Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 |
Arkansas[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Benton | The Bauxite Mines | Julius Woeltz | 1942 | currently located in the Saline County Courthouse in Benton, Arkansas | ||
Clarendon | They Cleared the Land and Planted Cotton | 1942 | never installed, current location unknown | |||
Clarksville | How Happy was the Occasion | 1941 | ||||
Dardanelle Agriculture and Post Office, in Dardanelle |
Cotton Growing, Manufacture, and Export | Ludwig Mactarian | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
DeQueen | Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas | 1942 | ||||
DeWitt Post Office, in De Witt | Portrait of Contemporary De Witt | 1941 | ||||
Lake Village | Lake Country Wild Life | 1941 | 1998 | |||
Magnolia | Threshing | Joe Jones | 1938 | |||
Morrilton Post Office, in Morrilton | Men at Rest | 1939 | on display at the Conway County Courthouse | 1998 | ||
Nashville | Peach Growing | 1939 | 1998 | |||
Osceola | Early Settlers of Osceola, Arkansas | 1939 | destroyed by fire in 1966 | |||
Paris Post Office, in Paris | Rural Arkansas | 1940 | Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 | 1998 | ||
Piggott Post Office, in Piggott | Air Mail | Daniel Rhodes | 1941 | |||
, in Pocahontas | Early Days and the First Post Office in Pocahontas | 1939 | restored and on display at Arkansas State University | 2002 | ||
Siloam Springs | Lumbering in Arkansas | 1940 | ||||
Springdale | Local Industries | Natalie Henry | 1940 | on display at Shiloh Museum of Ozark History | ||
Van Buren Post Office, in Van Buren | The Chosen Site | E. Martin Hennings | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1998 | |
Wynne Post Office, in Wynne | Cotton Pickers | Ethel Magafan | 1940 | 1998 |
California[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Alhambra | El Gringo | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/70169000 (image #1) | 1938 | painted over | ||
Alhambra | El Indio | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/70169000 (image #3) | Gordon Kenneth Grant | 1938 | painted over | |
Alhambra | El Paysan | https://catalog.archives.gov/id/70169000 (image #2) | Gordon Kenneth Grant | 1938 | painted over | |
Berkeley Post Office, in Berkeley | Incidents in California History | Suzanne Scheuer | 1937 | tempera and oil on canvas | 1981 | |
Beverly Hills Main Post Office, in Beverly Hills | Post Rider Air Mail | Charles Kassler | 1936 | fresco | 1985 | |
Burbank | People of Burbank | Barse Miller | 1940 | 1985 | ||
Calexico | Lettuce Workers | 1942 | tempera on gesso | |||
Canoga Park | Palomino Ponies | Maynard Dixon | 1942 | |||
Claremont | Pomona Valley Life, 1930 | Milford Zornes | 1937 | |||
Claremont | California Landscape | Milford Zornes | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Compton | Early California | 1936 | ||||
Culver City | Studio Lot | 1942 | tempera | |||
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Eureka), in Eureka | Mining and Forestry | 1936 | tempera on canvas restored and on display at the new McKinleyville, California Federal Courthouse. |
1983 | ||
U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, in Eureka | Water and Land | Thomas Laman | 1936 | tempera on canvas restored and on display at the new McKinleyville, California Federal Courthouse. |
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Fullerton | Orange Pickers | Paul Julian | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Hayward | Rural Landscape | 1938 | ||||
Huntington Park | History of California | 1937 | oil on canvas seven panels |
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La Jolla | Scenic View of the Village | Belle Baranceanu | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Lancaster | Hailing Water Pipe through Antelope Valley | Jose Moya del Pino | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
U.S. Post Office-Terminal Annex (Los Angeles), NRHP-listed | Cultural Contributions of North, South and Central America | Boris Deutsch | 1944 | 11 lunettes fresco[21] |
1985 | |
U.S. Court House and Post Office (Los Angeles, 1940), NRHP-listed | Los Angeles Prehistoric Spanish Colonial | Edward Biberman | 1940 | 2006 | ||
Los Banos | Early Spanish Caballeros | 1940 | on display at | |||
Manteca | Rural Life | Conrad Buff | 1940 | |||
Martinez | The Road to Eldorado | Edith Hamlin Maynard Dixon |
1939 | oil on canvas | ||
U.S. Post Office (Merced), in Merced | Jedediah Smith Crossing the Merced River | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1937 | tempera | 1983 | |
U.S. Post Office, Merced | Vacheros | Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli | 1937 | tempera | 1983 | |
Modesto | Irrigation | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Agricultural Products of the Valley | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Harvesting of Grapes | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Packing Cheese | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Grain Harvesting | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Meatpacking | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Sorting Grapes | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Modesto | Tractor and Plow | Ray Boynton | 1936 | |||
Monrovia | Grizzly Bear and Cubs | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1940 | restored and on display at | ||
Monterey | Monterey Bay | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | |||
Oceanside | Air Mail | Elsie Seeds | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Ontario | The Dream | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Ontario | The Reality | Nellie G. Best | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Oxnard | Oxnard Panorama | 1941 | artist was a Stanford Art Professor | |||
Pacific Grove | Lovers Point | Victor Arnautoff | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Redondo Beach | Excursion Train and Picknickers in the Nineties | Paul Sample | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Redondo Beach | Fishing from Redondo Rock | Paul Sample | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Redondo Beach | Sheep Farming and Ocean near Redondo | Paul Sample | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Redwood City | Flower Farming and Vegetable Raising | Jose Moya del Pino | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Reedley | Grape Pickers | Boris Deutsch | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Richmond | Richmond – Industrial City | Victor Arnautoff | 1941 | oil on canvas missing[22] |
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Saint Helena | Grape Pickers | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
San Francisco | History of San Francisco | Anton Refregier | 1946–48 | Tempera on gesso | 1979 | |
San Gabriel | San Gabriel County | Ray Strong | 1938 | oil on canvas kept in the office of the postmaster. |
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San Mateo | Life in Early California | 1935 | egg tempera on plasterboard | 1988 | ||
U.S. Post Office (San Pedro) in San Pedro | Mail Transportation | Fletcher Martin | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1985 | |
San Rafael | San Rafael Creek – 1851 | 1937 | ||||
Santa Cruz | Cabbage Culture | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | Oil on canvas | 1985 | |
Santa Cruz | Limestone Quarries | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | Oil on canvas | ||
Santa Cruz | Artichoke Raising | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | Oil on canvas | ||
Santa Cruz | Farming Industry | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | Oil on canvas | ||
Sebastopol | Agriculture | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Selma | Land of Irrigation | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
South San Francisco | South San Francisco Past and Present | Victor Arnautoff | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
South Pasadena | The Stage Coach | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Susanville | Deer | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1939 | egg tempera | ||
Tracy | Overland Pioneers | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | oil on canvas currently missing |
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Tracy | Spaniards | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Tracy | Days of First Railroad | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Ukiah | Resources of the Soil | Ben Cunningham | 1938 | egg tempera | ||
Vacaville | Fruit Season, Vacaville | Emrich Nicholson | 1939 | oil on canvas, now privately owned[22] |
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Venice | The Story of Venice | Edward Biberman | 1941 | oil-wax emulsion on canvas | ||
Ventura | Agriculture and Industries of Ventura | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Whittier | Boy with Sheep | 1938 | tempera painted over |
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Woodland | Farm Life | George Harris | 1937 | |||
Woodland | The Trek of Father Crespi- 1777 | 1938 | destroyed |
Colorado[]
A review of murals in Colorado's post offices found there were no frescos, but rather all had been painted on canvas.[23]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Colorado Springs | Two murals in the Colorado Springs post office (NRHP-listed, but NRHP document does not mention murals) were removed and installed in the Federal Building in Denver.[23]: 23–24 This is probably the building now named Byron White United States Courthouse. | |||||
Denver | The Horse Corral | Ethel Magafan | 1942 | |||
Englewood | Colorado Stock Sale | Boardman Robinson | 1940 | 2011 | ||
Florence Post Office Florence |
Antelope | Olive Rush | 1939 | tempera | 1986 | |
Glenwood Springs, Colorado | Decorative Map | Jenne Magafan and Edward Chavez | 1937 | |||
Golden | Building the New Road | Kenneth Evett | 1941 | |||
Grand Junction | The Harvest | Louise Emerson Ronnebeck | 1940 | crescent shaped canvas | ||
Gunnison | The Wealth of the West | Ila Turner McAfee | 1940 | |||
Littleton | North Platte Country against the Mountains | 1940 | on display at Littleton City Hall Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 |
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Loveland | Industries around Loveland | 1938 | ||||
U.S. Post Office-Manitou Springs Main in Manitou Springs | Hunters, Red and White | Archie Musick | 1942 | 1986 | ||
Montrose | [23]: 40 | |||||
U.S. Post Office, in Rifle | Colorado Landscape | George Vander Sluis | 1942 | oil on canvas | 1986 | |
Rocky Ford | The First Crossing at Rocky Ford | Victor Higgins | 1936 | oil on canvas | 2008 | |
Walsenburg | The Spanish Peaks | oil on canvas |
Connecticut[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Bridgeport | Bridgeport Manufacturing | Arthur Covey | 1936 | 3 panels | 1986 | |
Bridgeport | Stagecoach and Modern Transportation | 1936 | ||||
Clinton | The Post Road in Connecticut | William Meyerowitz | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
East Hartford | The Stop of Hooker's Band in East Hartford before Crossing the River | 1940 | Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 | |||
Enfield | Thompsonville, Connecticut | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Fairfield | Tempura Mutantur et Nos Mutanmur in Illis or Times Change and We Change With Them | 1938 | restored in 2013 and moved to Sullivan-Independence Hall[27] | |||
Greenwich | Old Days in Greenwich | Victoria Hutson Huntley | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1986 | |
Lakeville | Ethan Allen in Forge Making Cannon Balls | 1942 | ||||
Madison | Gathering Seaweed from the Sound | 1940 | ||||
New Haven | Pursuit of Regicides | 1939 | ||||
New London | Early Morning Cutting-In Aloft | 1938 | 6 panels | 1986 | ||
Norwalk | Past Products of South Norwalk | Kindred McLeary | 1941 | tempera | 1986 | |
Norwalk | Present Products of South Norwalk | Kindred McLeary | 1941 | tempera | ||
Norwalk | Indians Instructing Pioneers in Forest Lore | Kindred McLeary | 1941 | tempera | ||
Norwalk | Old Well | Kindred McLeary | 1941 | destroyed in 1963 renovation | ||
Norwalk | Bays and Oyster Fishing | Kindred McLeary | 1941 | destroyed in 1963 renovation | ||
Norwalk | Building Norwalk | 1938 | ||||
Norwich | Taking Up Arms – 1776 | 1940 | 1986 | |||
Portland | Shade Grown Tobacco | Austin Mecklem | 1942 | |||
Shelton | River Landscape | 1940 | ||||
Southington | Romance of Southington | 1942 | ||||
Thomaston | Early Clockmaking | |
1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Torrington | Episodes in the Life of John Brown | Arthur Covey | 1937 | |||
West Haven | Fording of the West River to Settle West Haven | 1938 | ||||
Winsted | Lincoln's Arbiter Settles the Winsted Post Office Controversy | Amy Jones | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Delaware[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Dover | Harvest, Spring and Summer | 1937 | Presently in Wesley Methodist Church, Lockermann Station Educational Building. Funded by TRAP, this mural includes several panels | |||
Harrington | Men Hoeing | 1941 | wax tempera | |||
New Castle | William Penn Welcomed at New Castle | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Rehoboth Beach | Frontier Mail | Karl Knaths | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Selbyville | Chicken Farm | 1942 | oil and tempera Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 |
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Wilmington | Chemistry and Industry | 1938 | oil on canvas |
District of Columbia[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | The Pony Express | Frank Mechau | In 1971, the U.S. Postal Service vacated the building which currently serves as the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2013 the building was renamed the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building. | Yes[30] | ||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Dangers of the Mail | Frank Mechau | 1937 | The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building (formerly Main Post Office Department building) | ||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building |
The Nesters | Tom Lea | 1937 | destroyed[31] | ||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Stage Coach Attacked by Bandits | William C. Palmer | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Covered Wagon Attacked by Indians | William C. Palmer | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Sorting the Mail | Reginald Marsh | 1936 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Unloading the Mail | Reginald Marsh | 1936 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Transportation of the Mail | Alfredo Crimi | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Post Office Work Room | Alfredo Crimi | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Mail Service in the Arctic | Rockwell Kent | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Mail Service in the Tropics | Rockwell Kent | 1937 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | General Store and Post Office | Doris Lee | 1938 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Country Post | Doris Lee | 1938 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Writing the family letter | Alexander Brook | 1939 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Reading the family letter | Alexander Brook | 1939 |
Florida[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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De Funiak Springs | Scene of Town | 1942 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 [11] |
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Fort Pierce | Osceola Holding Informal Court with His Chiefs |
Lucile Blanch | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at Fort Pierce City Hall |
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Jasper | Harvest at Home | Pietro Lazzari | 1941 | fresco | ||
Jasper | News from Afar | Pietro Lazzari | 1941 | fresco | ||
Lake Wales | Harvest Time – Lake Wales | Denman Fink | 1942 | |||
Lake Worth | Settlers Fighting Alligator from Rowboat | 1947 | ||||
Madison | Long Staple Cotton | George Snow Hill | 1937 | oil on canvas[11] | ||
Miami | Law Guides Florida Progress | Denman Fink | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Miami Beach | Episodes from the History of Florida |
Charles Russell Hardman | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Miami Beach | Episodes from the History of Florida |
Charles Russell Hardman | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Miami Beach | Episodes from the History of Florida |
Charles Russell Hardman | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Milton | Loading Pulpwood | George Snow Hill | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Palm Beach | Landscape | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Palm Beach | Seminole Indians | Charles Rosen | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1983 | |
Perry | Cypress Logging | George Snow Hill | 1938 | Depicts lumber industry important in the area. Installed originally in Old Perry Post Office; moved in 1987 to be put on display at new Perry Post Office building; a photographic reproduction was to be posted in the old post office location.[33] | ||
Sebring | Prehistoric Life in Florida | Charles R. Knight | 1942 | oil on canvas on display at the Sebring Public Library |
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Starke | Reforestation | 1942 | ||||
Tallahassee | History of Florida | Eduard Buk Ulreich | 1939 | oil on canvas 8 panels |
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West Palm Beach | The Legend of James Edward Hamilton, Mail Carrier | Stevan Dohanos | 1940 | tempera 6 panels |
Georgia[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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U.S. P.O. (Adel) in Adel |
Plantation Scene | 1941 | oil on canvas[35] Mural has been moved to Adel's newer post office building. Alice Flint also did murals for post offices of Fairfield, Connecticut, and Arabi, Louisiana.[36] | 2009 | ||
Augusta | The British Come to See Augusta | William Dean Fausett | 1939 | tempera on gesso in storage at Augusta Museum of Art[37] |
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Augusta | Plantation, Transportation, Education | Abraham Harriton | 1941 | on display at the Augusta Convention and Visitor's Bureau | ||
Blakely | The Land is Bought from the Indians | 1938 | oil on canvas[38] | |||
Cairo | Products of Grady County | Paul L. Gill | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at . The U.S. Post Office is included in the NRHP-listed Cairo Commercial Historic District |
1994 | |
Camilla | Theme of the South | 1942 | oil on canvas[11] | |||
College Park | Arrival of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at College Park Post Office |
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Commerce | Early Mail Service and Construction of the Railroads | Philip Guston | 1938 | tempera | ||
Conyers | The Ploughman | 1940 | ||||
Cornelia | Northern Georgia | Charles Trumbo Henry | 1939 | tempera on paperboard | ||
Cuthbert | Last Indian Troubles in Randolph County – 1836 | 1939 | ||||
Eastman | Georgia Lumberman Receiving Mail by Star Route Wagon | 1938 | ||||
Greensboro | The Burning of Greensboro | 1939 | ||||
Greensboro | Cotton Picking in Georgia | Carson Davenport | 1939 | |||
Hartwell | A Letter | 1939 | ||||
Jackson | Cotton – From Field to Mill | Philip Evergood | 1949 | |||
Jesup | General Oglethorpe Concludes a Treaty of Amity and Peace with the Creek Indians – May 18, 1733 |
1938 | on display at the Wayne County Library | |||
Lawrenceville | Spring in Georgia | Andree Ruellan | 1942 | on display at the Stephens Federal Building in Athens, Georgia | ||
Louisville post office in Louisville Commercial Historic District | Plantation, Education, Transportation | Abraham Harrison | 1941 | New Deal post office gained, in 1941, mural titled "Plantation, Education, Transportation" painted by Hungary-born Abraham Harrison; by 1993 the mural had been removed to storage.[39] | ||
McDonough | Cotton Gin Mill | 1941 | ||||
Pelham | Pelham Landscape | Georgina Klitgaard | 1941 | oil on canvas[11] | ||
Statesboro | Spring | Caroline Speare Rohland | 1941 | acrylic on canvas on indefinite loan to Georgia Southern University Museum |
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Swainsboro | Experimenting with the First Model of the Cotton Gin | Edna Reindel | 1939 | on display at the Emmanuel County Courthouse | ||
Sylvania | Spring | Caroline Speare Rohland | 1941 | Removed from the Post Office in the 1980s due to a complaint from the NAACP. In 1995 it was discovered in a closet, restored and placed on permanent loan by the Federal Government to Georgia Southern University[40] | ||
US Post Office-Sylvester, in Sylvester | Cantaloupe Industry | 1939 | ||||
Vidalia | The County Store and the Post Office | Daniel Celentano | 1938 | The middle section of the mural was destroyed. It was restored as two separate murals. on display at the Vidalia City Hall |
Hawaii[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Honolulu Schofield Barracks Branch | Primitive Communication | Roy King | 1943 | wood relief[42] |
Idaho[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Blackfoot Main Post Office, in Blackfoot | The Arrival Celebration | Andrew Standing Soldier | 1939 | Five-panel mural addressing Federal governments public works and arts programs as efforts to help the community in times of economic emergency. It was painted for $2,000.[45] Artist was an American Indian. | 1989 | |
, in Buhl | Snake River Ferry | 1941 | 1989 | |||
Burley | Pioneer on the Oregon Trail along the Snake River | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1938 | |||
, in Kellogg | Discovery[46] | Fletcher Martin | 1941 | Martin's original proposal, Mine Rescue (1939), was deemed too controversial. It is now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[47][11] | 1990 | |
Preston Main Post Office, in Preston | The Battle of Bear River | 1941 | Depicts U.S. cavalry attacking and burning a Native American village. Approximately 5 by 12 feet (1.5 m × 3.7 m) in size.[48] | 1989 | ||
, in St. Anthony | The Fur Traders | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1939 |
Illinois[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Abingdon | Post Rider | 1941 | terra cotta relief | |||
Berwyn | The Picnic | Richard Haines | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Bushnell | Pioneer Home in Bushnell | Reva Jackman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Carmi | Service to the Farmer | Davenport Griffen | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Carthage | Pioneers Tilling Soil and Building Log Cabin | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1989 | ||
Chicago Canal Street Station |
Advent of the Pioneers, 1851 | Frances Foy | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at Cardiss Collins Post Office |
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Chicago South Loop Station |
The Great Indian Council – 1883 | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1940 | oil on canvas installed at the Chestnut St. Station moved to South Loop Station |
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Chicago Lakeview Station |
Chicago:Epoch of a Great City | Harry Sternberg | 1938 | oil on canvas self-portrait of artist as a scientist in lower left corner |
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Chicago Main Post Office |
Mural Maps | 1937 | oil on canvas, 27 panels in the many upper-floor offices of General McCoy, head of the Sixth Army Corps at one time painted over but restored in 2000 |
2001 | ||
Chicago Morgan Park Station |
Father Jacques Marquette, 1674 | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Chillicothe | Railroading | Arthur Lidov | 1942 | tempera on board | ||
Clinton | Clinton in Winter | Aaron Bohrod | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Decatur | Fusion of Agriculture and Industry | Mitchell Siporin | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | Early Pioneers | Edward Millman | 1938 | 3 murals and a fresco | ||
Decatur | Social Consciousness | Edward Millman | 1938 | |||
Decatur | Growth of Democracy | Edward Millman | 1938 | |||
Decatur | Frank Lloyd Wright | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | Carl Sandburg | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | Natural Resources of Illinois | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | John Deere | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | Colonel Francis Parker | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Decatur | Development of Illinois | Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
Des Plaines | Father Marquette | 1945 | 2 murals | |||
Downers Grove | Chicago, Railroad Center of the World | Elizabeth Tracy | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Dwight | Stage at Dawn | 1937 | fresco | |||
East Alton | The Letter | Frances Foy | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
East Moline | Early Settlers of Moline Along the Mississippi | Edgar Britton | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Eldorado | Mining in Illinois | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Elmhurst | There Was a Vision | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Fairfield | Old Settlers | William Schwartz | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Flora | Good News and Bad | Davenport Griffen | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Forest Park | The White Fawn | Miriam McKinnie | 1940 | damaged during removal; in storage at Public Library | ||
Galesburg | Breaking the Prairie, Log City 1837 | Aaron Bohrod | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Geneva | Fish Fry in the Park | Manuel Bromberg | 1941 | tempera | ||
Gibson City | Hiawatha Returning with Minnehaha | Frances Foy | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Gillespie | Illinois Farm | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1935 | oil on canvas | ||
Glen Ellyn | Settlers | Daniel Rhodes | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Hamilton | On the River | Edmund Lewandowski | 1942 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48 States Competition from Life Magazine, 12/4/39 |
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Herrin | George Rogers Clark Conferring with Indians near Herrin, Illinois | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1940 | oil on canvas destroyed |
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Lemont | Canal Boats | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Lewistown | Lewistown Milestones | Ida Abelman | 1941 | tempera | ||
Madison | Assimilation and Immigration into Industrial Life of Madison | 1940 | oil and tempera on canvas | |||
Marseilles | Industrial Marseilles | 1938 | oil on canvas, restored in 2005 | |||
Marshall | Harvest | Miriam McKinnie | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
McLeansboro | The First Mail Flight | Dorothea Mierisch | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Melrose Park | Airmail | Edwin Boyd Johnson | 1937 | fresco | ||
Moline | Ploughshare Manufacturing | Edward Millman | 1937 | egg tempera on gesso | ||
Mount Carroll | Rural Scene – Wakarusa Valley | Irene Bianucci | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Morris | The Growth of Mount Morris | Dale Nichols | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Sterling | The Covered Bridge | 1941 | tempera | |||
Naperville | George Martin's Home Overlooking Old Naper Hill | Rainey Bennett[52] | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Nashville | Barnyard | 1942 | tempera on wallboard | |||
Normal | Development of the State Normal School | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Oak Park | The Founding of Fort Crevecoeur | J. Theodore Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Oak Park | La Salle's Search for Tonti, 1680 | J. Theodore Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Oak Park | The Pioneer of 1848 | J. Theodore Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Oak Park | The Osceola – The First Shipment of Wheat from Chicago, 1839 | J. Theodore Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
O'Fallon | John Mason Peck, First Postmaster, Handing Out Mail, 1830 | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Oglesby | The Illini and Potawatomies Struggle at Starved Rock | Fay E. Davis | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Oregon | Pioneer and Democracy | 1940 | tempera | |||
Petersburg | Lincoln at New Salem, Illinois | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Pittsfield | Riverboat and Bridge | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Rushville | Hart Fellows – Builder of Rushville | Rainey Bennett[52] | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Salem | Lincoln as Postmaster in New Salem | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Shelbyville | Shely County Fair 1900 | Lucia Wiley | 1941 | fresco | ||
Staunton | Going to Work | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Tuscola | The Old Days | Edwin Boyd Johnson | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Vandalia | Old State Capitol Building | Aaron Bohrod | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Virden | Illinois Pastoral | James Daugherty | 1939 | tempera and oil | ||
Wilmette | In the Soil is Our Wealth | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Wood River | Stagecoach and Mail | Archibald Motley, Jr. | 1937 | oil on canvas |
Indiana[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Alexandria | The Sleighing Party | 1938 | ||||
Angola | Hoosier Farm | 1937 | on display at Steuban County Community Center | |||
Attica | Trek of the Covered Wagon to Indiana | Reva Jackman | 1938 | 1988 | ||
Aurora | Down to the Ferry | 1938 | ||||
Batesville | Building the Industrial Foundation of Batesville | 1938 | ||||
Boonville | Boonville Beginnings | Ida Abelman | 1941 | casein tempera on canvas | ||
Cambridge | Pride Of Cambridge City | 1941 | ||||
Crawfordsville | Indiana Agriculture | 1942 | ||||
Crown Point | From Such Beginnings Sprang the County of Lake Indiana | 1938 | ||||
Culver | The Arrival of the Mail in Culver | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1938 | |||
Danville | Filling the Water Jugs at Haymaking Time | Gail W. Martin | 1939 | |||
Dunkirk | Preparations for Autumn Festival, Dunkirk | Frances Foy | 1941 | |||
Franklin | Local Industry | 1940 | ||||
Garrett | Clearing the Right of Way | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Gas City | Gas City in Boom days | 1939 | ||||
Hobart | Early Hobart | William A. Dolwick | 1938 | |||
Indianapolis | Suburban Street | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Jasper | Indiana Farming Scene in Late Autumn | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1939 | |||
Knightstown | The Evening Mail | 1938 | ||||
Lafayette | Rural Delivery and Sad News | Henrick Martin Mayer | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
LaGrange | The Corn School | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Liberty | Animal Fields | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Ligonier | Cutting Timber | Fay E. Davis | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Martinsville | The Arrival of the Mail | Alan Tomkins | 1937 | |||
Middlebury | Early Middlebury Mail | 1939 | ||||
Monticello | Haymaking | Marguerite Zorach | 1942 | |||
Nappanee | Waiting for the Mail | Grant Christian | 1938 | |||
North Manchester | Indiana Farm – Sunday Afternoon | Alan Tomkins | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Paoli | Rural Mail Carriers | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Pendleton | Loggers | William F. Kaeser | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Rensselaer | Receiving the Mail on the Farm | John E. Costigan | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Rockville | Landscape | Milton Avery | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Spencer | Harvesting | Joseph Meert | 1940 | tempera and oil on canvas | ||
Terre Haute | Magna Carta – Through This Document Government Exists According to Law not Power |
1935 | on display at Indiana State University College of Business |
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Tipton | Indiana Farming | Donald M. Mattison | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Union City | Country Cousins | Donald M. Mattison | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Iowa[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Ames | The Evolution of Corn | 1938 | ||||
Audubon | Audubon's Trip Down the Ohio and Mississippi – 1820 | 1942 | ||||
Bloomfield | Autumn in Iowa | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Clarion | Farm Scene | Paul Faulkner | 1943 | |||
Columbus Junction | Lovers Leap | Sante Graziani | 1942 | |||
Corning | Band Concert | Marion Gilmore | 1941 | egg tempera on fiberboard mounted on fiberboard | ||
Corydon | Volunteer Fire Department | Marion Gilmore | 1942 | |||
Cresco | Iowa Farming | Richard Haines | 1937 | |||
DeWitt | Shucking Corn | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at DeWitt City Hall |
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U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, in Dubuque | Early Mississippi Steamboat | William Bunn | 1936 | oil on canvas[56] | 1985 CP | |
Dubuque | Earl Settlers of Dubuque | 1936 | ||||
Emmetsburg | Conservation of Wildlife | Lee Allen | 1940 | |||
Forest City | Evening on the Farm | 1942 | ||||
Harlan | The Farmer Feeding Industry | 1937 | ||||
Hawarden | Hunters | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Ida Grove | Preparations for the First County Fair in Ida Grove – 1872 | Andrene Kauffman | 1940 | |||
Independence | Postman in Storm | 1939 | ||||
Jefferson | The New Calf | 1938 | ||||
Knoxville | Pioneer Group at the Red Rock Line – 1845 | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Leon | Rural Free Delivery | 1938 | ||||
Manchester | Iowa Farm Life | 1938 | ||||
Marion | Communication by Mail | 1939 | restored in 2008 on display at Marion Heritage Center |
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Missouri Valley | Iowa Fair | 1938 | ||||
Monticello | Iowa Landscape | William C. Palmer | 1940 | Three panels: the postman's creed, left panel; the Iowa state motto, center panel; the state song of Iowa, right panel. | ||
Mount Ayr | The Corn Parade | Orr C. Fisher | 1941 | |||
Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant in the Forties – The Farm | 1939 | ||||
Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant in the Forties – The Town | Dorothea Tomlinson | 1939 | |||
New Hampton | Breaking the Colt | Tom Savage | 1939 | |||
Onawa | Soil Erosion and Control | Lee Allen | 1938 | |||
Osceola | Arrival of the First Train | 1936 | ||||
Pella | Hollanders Settle in Pella | Byron B. Boyd | 1938 | |||
Rockwell City | Summer | 1941 | ||||
Sigourney | Indian Harvest | Richard Olsen | 1940 | |||
Tipton | Cattle | 1940 | ||||
Waverly | Letter From Home in 1856 | Mildred Pelzer Lynch | 1938 |
Kansas[]
A number of Kansas post offices were listed on the National Register on basis of their murals, as part of a study of "Kansas Post Offices with Artwork, 1936-1942".[58]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Anthony United States Post Office, Anthony | Turning a Corner | Joe Jones | 1939 | Oil on canvas mural shows three farmers using a combine to thresh wheat.[59] | 1989 | |
Augusta | A Kansas Gusher | 1940 | 1989 | |||
Belleville | Kansas Stream | Birger Sandzen | 1939 | 1989 | ||
Caldwell United States Post Office, Caldwell | Cowboys Driving Cattle | Kenneth Evett | 1941 | tempera[60] | 1989 | |
Council Grove | Autumn Colors | 1941 | 1989 | |||
Eureka | Cattle Roundup | Vance Kirkland | 1938 | 1989 | ||
Fort Scott | Border Gateways | Oscar E. Berninghaus | 1937 | |||
Fredonia U.S. Post Office, Fredonia | Delivery of Mail to the Farm | 1939 | Ten piece terra cotta sculpture.[61] | 1989 | ||
Goodland | Rural Free Delivery | Kenneth Miller Adams | 1937 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
Halstead | Where Kit Carson Camped | Birger Sandzen | 1941 | 1989 | ||
Herington | Arrival of the First Train in Herington – 1885 | 1937 | ||||
Horton | Picnic in Kansas | Kenneth Evett | 1938 | 1989 | ||
Horton | Changing of Horses for the Pony Express | Kenneth Evett | 1939 | 1989 | ||
Hutchinson | Threshing in Kansas | Lumen Martin Winter | 1942 | 1989 | ||
Kingman | In the Days of the cattleman's Picnic | Jessie S. Wilber | 1942 | fresco tempera on plaster | 1989 | |
United States Post Office–Lindsborg, in Lindsborg | Smoky River | Birger Sandzen | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
Neodesha United States Post Office, Neodesha | Neodesha's First Inhabitants | 1938 | Tempura on pressed wood board "that depicts the friendly relations between the Osage Indians of southeastern Kansas and the early white settlers. On the right side of the canvas Osage Chief Little Bear waves to , a physician responsible for much of the peacefulness between the two cultures."[62] | 1989 | ||
Olathe | The Mail Must Go Through | Albert T. Reid | 1940 | moved to Olathe Public Library | ||
Oswego United States Post Office, Oswego | Farm Life | 1940 | tempera on canvas[63] | 1989 | ||
Russell | Wheat Workers | Martyl Schweig | 1940 | a harvest scene in a regional social realistic style | 1989 | |
Sabetha | The Hare and the Tortoise | 1937 | 1989 | |||
Seneca | Men and Wheat | Joe Jones | 1940 | 1989 | ||
Wichita | Kansas Farming | Richard Haines | 1936 | now the Federal Courthouse with murals on display |
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Wichita | Pioneers in Kansas | 1936 | now the Federal Courthouse with murals on display |
Kentucky[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anchorage | Meeting the Train | 1939 | oil on linen | |||
Flemingsburg | Crossing To the Battle of Blue Licks | Lucile Blanch | 1943 | |||
Fort Thomas | General G. H. Thomas and Philip Sheridan | Lucienne Bloch | 1942 | |||
Greenville | Source of Power | 1940 | oil on canvas only surviving panel from an original set of 6 |
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Hardinsburg | Kentucky Homestead | 1942 | ||||
Harrodsburg | An Indian Attack | 1941 | ||||
Harrodsburg | George Rogers Clark Being Welcomed at Fort Harrod | Orville Carroll | 1941 | |||
Harrodsburg | Pioneers Being Refreshed at the Spring in Fort Harrod | Orville Carroll | 1941 | |||
Harrodsburg | Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner Arriving at Harrod's Settlement | Orville Carroll | 1941 | |||
Harrodsburg | Death of a Settler By An Indians Arrow | Orville Carroll | 1941 | |||
Harrodsburg | First School in Kentucky Taught at Fort Harrod by Mrs. Jane Coomes | Orville Carroll | 1941 | |||
Hickman post office, in Old Hickman Historic District, Hickman | Mississippi Packets | William E. L. Bunn | 1940 | [65] | 1990 | |
Hodgenville | Hodgen's Mill | 1943 | oil on canvas | |||
Lexington | Daniel Boone's Arrival in Kentucky | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Morehead | The Rural Free Delivery | 1939 | former post office is now the Morehead Municipal Building | |||
Morganfield | Rural Free Delivery | 1939 | ||||
Pineville | Kentucky Mountain Mail En Route | 1942 | ||||
Princeton | Kentucky Tobacco Field | 1938 | ||||
Williamsburg | Floating Horses Down the Cumberland River | 1939 |
Louisiana[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Abbeville | The Harvest | 1939 | on display at the Abbeville Museum | |||
Arcadia | Cotton Time | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Bunkie | Cotton Pickers | Caroline Rohland | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Covington | Tung Oil Industry | Xavier Gonzalez | 1939 | the former Covington Post Office is now The Southern Hotel |
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DeRidder | Rural Free Delivery | Conrad A. Albrizio | 1936 | building now houses the Beauregard Community Action Association | ||
U.S. Post Office (Ferriday, Louisiana) in Ferriday | 1939 | WPA mural in post office in the National Register-listed Ferriday Commercial Historic District[67] | ||||
Gretna | Steamboats on the Mississippi | Stuart R. Purser | 1939 | Mural has been relocated to the Finance Station Post Office building | ||
Hammond | Strawberry Farming | Xavier Gonzalez | 1937 | |||
Haynesville | Agriculture and History of Clairborne City | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Jenerette | Sugar Cane Mill | 1941 | fresco | |||
Lake Providence | Life on the Lake | Ethel Edwards | 1942 | |||
Oakdale | Air Express | 1939 | ||||
Rayville | LaSalle's Quest for the Mississippi | 1939 | ||||
St. Martinville | Evangeline | Minetta Good | 1940 | [11] | ||
Tallulah | The River | 1938 | fresco | |||
Ville Platte | Louisiana Bayou | Paul Rohland | 1939 | |||
Winnsboro | Logging in the Louisiana Swamps | 1939 | building is now a museum |
Maine[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Dexter | News from the Woodsman | 1941 | ||||
Dover-Foxcroft | River Driving | 1940 | ||||
Ellsworth | Ellsworth, Lumber Port | Alzira Peirce | 1938 | on display at the Ellsworth City Hall | ||
Kennebunk | The Arrival of the First Letter – Kennebunk Post Office from Falmouth – June 14, 1775 |
Edith Barry | 1939 | former post office now houses the Kennebunkport Police Station | ||
Kennebunkport | Bathers | Elizabeth Tracy | 1941 | removed May-1945[69] | ||
Millinocket | Logging in the Maine Woods | 1942 | ||||
Portland | The Sea | 1937 | ||||
Portland | The Rocky Coast of Maine | Henry Mattson | 1937 | |||
South Portland | Shipwreck at Night | Alzira Peirce | 1939 | |||
Westbrook | Woodmen in the Woods of Maine | Waldo Peirce | 1937 | Post office torn down in 1980 on display at Portland Museum of Art |
Maryland[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Bel Air | First Performance of Edwin Booth | 1938 | ||||
Bethesda | Montgomery County Farm Women's Market | Robert Franklin Gates | 1939 | after renovation in 2013, the mural was re-installed in the Bethesda – Chevy Chase Regional Service Center |
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Catonsville | Incidents in the History of Catonsville | 1942 | ||||
Ellicott City | Scenes of Old Ellicott City | 1942 | tempera oil in plaster | |||
Hagerstown | Transportation of the Mural | Frank Long | 1938 | 3 panels | ||
Hyattsville | Eugene Kingman | 1938 | tempera oil on plaster | 1986 | ||
Oakland | Buckwheat Harvest | Robert Franklin Gates | 1939 | tempera | ||
Rockville | Sugarloaf Mountain | 1940 | ||||
Salisbury | Cotton Patch | Jacob Getlar Smith | 1939 | on display at the NRHP-listed Maude R. Toulson Federal Building and Post Office in Salisbury | 2016 | |
Salisbury | Salisbury | Jacob Getlar Smith | 1939 | |||
Stage at Bryd's Inn | Jacob Getlar Smith | 1939 | ||||
Silver Spring | The Old tavern | 1937 | on display at the Silver Spring Public Library | |||
Towson | History of Transportation | 1939 | 5 tempera panels |
Massachusetts[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Adams | Quakers and the Site of Adams | 1940 | destroyed during renovation | |||
Arlington | Purchase of Land and Modern Tilling of the Soil | William C. Palmer | 1938[11] | |||
Ashland | The Railroad Comes to Town | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Boston East Boston Branch |
Communication | 1941 | oil on canvas 4 panels |
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Boston Everett Branch |
Mail for New England | Stephen Etnier | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Boston Lexington Branch |
Paul Revere’s Ride | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Canton | Paul Revere – 1801 | 1937 | ||||
Chestnut Hill | The Reverend John Elliot Preaching to the Indians | 1941 | ||||
Chicopee Falls | History of Chicopee Falls | 1938 | ||||
Concord | Battle of the Bridge | 1941 | ||||
Danvers | Return of Timothy Pickering to Reside in Danvers | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Dedham | Early Rural Mail Delivery | 1936 | ||||
Dedham | Early Rural School | W. Lester Stevens | 1936 | |||
East Walpole | Early Paper Making | 1941 | ||||
Falmouth | Recapture of Corn Schooner from British | 1943 | 1986 | |||
Holyoke | Captain Elizur Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River |
Ross Moffett | 1936 | oil on canvas | 1986 | |
Ipswich | Ipswich Tax Resistance | 1941 | ||||
Lexington | Paul Revere's Ride | 1940 | ||||
Lynn | Colonial and Contemporary Civic Culture | 1936 | 1986 | |||
Lynn | Early and Modern Industries of Lynn | William Riseman | 1936 | |||
Medford | Golden Triangle of Trade | Henry Billings | 1939 | 1986 | ||
Millbury | An Incident in the King Philip War – 1670 | 1941 | mural was "revived" in 1991 | 1987 | ||
Milton | The Suffolk Resolves – Oppression and Revolt in the Colonies |
1939 | ||||
Natick | John Eliot Speaks to the Natick Indians | 1937 | tempera [11] |
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Northampton | Work Religion and Education | 1940 | oil on canvas on display at the Hampshire County Courthouse |
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Somerville | A Skirmish Between British and Colonists | Ross Moffett | 1937 | 1986 | ||
South Hadley | Composite View of South Hadley | 1942 | tempera | 1986 | ||
Stoughton | A Massachusetts Countryside | 1940 | on display in attic at Stoughton Historic Society | |||
Revere | The First Store and Tavern | Ross Moffett | 1939 | |||
Rockport | Preparing Rockport Granite for Shipment | 1939 | ||||
Wareham | Cranberry Pickers | 1940 | ||||
Weymouth | First landing at Weymouth | 1942 |
Michigan[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Belding | Belding Brothers and Their Silk Industry | 1943 | on display at the Belding Public Library | |||
Birmingham | The Pioneering Society's Picnic | 1942 | Building now houses private offices with mural still on display. |
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Blissfield | Laying the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad | Jean Paul Slusser | 1938 | |||
Buchanan | Production | Gertrude Goodrich | 1941 | Mural has been painted over, but is in the process of being restored. A reproduction of a drawing/study is displayed. |
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Calumet | Copper Mining in Calumet | 1941 | ||||
Caro | Mail on the Farm | 1941 | ||||
Chelsea | The Way of Life | 1938 | Moved to new post office building in August 2009 | |||
Clare | The Mail Arrives in Clare | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Crystal Falls | Extending the Frontier in Northwest Territory | Allan Thomas | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Dearborn | Ten Eyck’s Tavern on Chicago Road | Rainey Bennett | 1938 | oil on canvas On display at the Henry Ford Community College Library |
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East Lansing | America's First Agricultural College | 1938 | On permanent loan and display at Michigan State University's Main Library | |||
Eaton Rapids | Industry and Agriculture | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Frankfort | On Board the Ferry Car (Ann Arbor #4, Feb. 14, 1923) | 1941 | 1989 | |||
Grand Ledge | Waiting for the Mail | 1939 | ||||
Grayling | The Lumber Camp | Robert Lepper | 1939 | oil on canvas Depicts a typical historical lumber camp populated by lumberjacks, sawing through timber; stacks of logs, logging equipment, workhorses, locomotive; Native American's observing the process[73] |
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Greenville | Lumbering | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Hamtramck | Products of Industry and Agriculture | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Hamtramck | Farm Family | Schomer Lichtner | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Hamtramck | City Workers | Schomer Lichtner | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Howell | Rural Delivery | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Iron Mountain | Historic Treatment of Mail Transportation in the West | 1935 | 5 oil on canvas panels | |||
Iron River | Paul Bunyan Straightening Out the Round River' | Milton Horn | July 16, 1941 | wood carved relief[74] | ||
Marquette | Marquette Exploring Shores of Lake Superior | Dewey Albinson | 1938 | On display at the Marquette US Post Office and Federal Courthouse | ||
Paw Paw | Bounty | Carlos Lopez | 1939 | |||
Plymouth | Plymouth Trail | Carlos Lopez | 1938 | |||
Rockford | Among the Furrows | 1940 | ||||
Rogers City | Harbor at Rogers City | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
St. Clair | St. Clair River | 1938 | ||||
Wayne | Landscape Near Wayne – 1875 | 1939 | Mural is missing[24] |
Minnesota[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Breckenridge | Arrival of the Rural Mail | 1938 | ||||
Caledonia | Hog Raising | Edmund Lewandowski | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Cambridge | People of the Soil | Seymour Fogel | 1940 | |||
Chisholm | Discovery of Ore | 1941 | ||||
Ely | Iron-Ore Mines | Elsa Jemne | 1941 | tempera | ||
Ely | Wilderness | Elsa Jemne | 1941 | tempera | ||
Hastings | Arrival of the Fall Catalogue | Richard Haines | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Hutchinson | The Hutchinson Singers | Elsa Jemne | 1942 | egg tempera on plaster | ||
International Falls | Early Lodging at Koochichin Falls | Lucia Wiley | 1943 | |||
Litchfield | Street Scene | Elof Wedin | 1937 | |||
Long Prairie | Gathering Wild Rice | Lucia Wiley | 1939 | |||
Marshall | Pioneers Arriving in Marshall by Wagon Train | 1938 | ||||
Morris | Gager's Trading Post on the Wadsworth Trail | 1943 | ||||
North St. Paul | Production | 1941 | tempera on plaster | |||
Sauk Centre | Threshing Wheat | 1942 | ||||
St. James | Indian Hunters and Rice Gatherers | 1940 | ||||
Wabasha | The Smoke Message | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Wayzata | Wayzata (Pines of the North) | 1947 | one of the latest New Deal murals in existence |
Mississippi[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Amory | Amory, Mississippi, 1889 | John McCrady | 1939 | A panoramic view of Amory, Mississippi's main street in 1889. | 1988 | |
Batesville | Cotton Plantation | 1942 | ||||
Bay St. Louis | Life on the Coast | 1938 | ||||
Old Post Office, Booneville | Scenic and Historic Booneville | Stefan Hirsch | 1943 | oil on canvas. Completed under the Treasury Bureau's Section of Fine Arts program at the cost of $750. In Old Post Office included in the NRHP-listed Downtown Booneville Historic District.[77] | 1998 | |
Carthage | Lumbermen Rolling a Log | 1938 | 1983 | |||
Columbus | Out of Soil | Beulah Bettersworth | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1983 | |
Crystal Springs | Harvest | 1943 | 1993 | |||
Durant | Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil | 1942 | ||||
Eupora | Cotton Farm | 1945 | ||||
Forest | Forest Logger | Julien Binford | 1941 | 1993 | ||
Hazelhurst | Life in the Mississippi Cotton Belt | Auriel Bessemer | 1939 | |||
Houston | Post Near Houston, Natchez, 1803 | Byron Burford, Jr. | 1941 | |||
Indianola | White Gold in the Delta | Beulah Bettersworth | 1939 | destroyed in the '60s | ||
Jackson | Pursuits of Life in Mississippi | Simka Simkhovitch | 1938 | In 2008 it was hanging in the James O. Eastland United States Courthouse in Jackson, Mississippi.[78] | ||
Leland | Ginnin' Cotton | Stuart R. Purser | 1940 | tempera | 1983 | |
Louisville | Crossroads | Karl Wolfe | 1938 | |||
Macon | Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1944 | |||
Magnolia | Cotton Harvest | 1939 | 1993 | |||
July 4 Celebration at Sheriff Bacof's | ||||||
Magnolia in 1889 | ||||||
New Albany | Milking Time | 1939 | ||||
Newton | Economic Life in Newton in the Earl 1940′s | Mary Boggs |
1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Okolona | The Richness of the Soil | Harold Egan | 1939 | painted over within days of completion | ||
Pascagoula | Legend of the Singing River | Lorin Thompson | 1939 | damaged in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina | ||
Picayune | Lumber Region of Mississippi | 1940 | ||||
Pontotoc | The Wedding of Ortez and SaOuana – Christmas, 1540 | Joseph Pollet | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Tylertown | Rural Mississippi – from Early Days to Present | Lucile Blanch | 1941 | tempera | ||
Waynesboro | Waynesboro Landscape | 1942 | oil on canvas |
Missouri[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Bethany | Time Out | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Canton | Winter Landscape | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1940 | |||
Cassville | Flora and Fauna of the Region | 1941 | 3 porcelain enameled panels, each signed | |||
Charleston | Harvest | Joe Jones | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
Clinton | Coon Hunt | Richard Haines | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Columbia | Pony Express | Edward Buk Ulreich | 1937 | since 2004, mural has been on display at the National Archives Central Plains Region building in Kansas City, MO. It had hung in various city offices from 1967 to 2004 |
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Indians Watching Stagecoach in the Distance | since 2004, mural has been on display at the National Archives Central Plains Region building in Kansas City, MO. It had hung in various city offices from 1967 to 2004 |
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Dexter | Husking Corn | Joe Jones | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Eldon | Picnic, Lake of the Ozarks | 1941 | ||||
Fredericktown | The Lead Belt | 1939 | oil on canvas | 2009 | ||
Higginsville | Industrial Activity in the City | 1942 | trempera | |||
Jackson | Loading Cattle | 1940 | moved to newer building | |||
Lee's Summit | Pastoral | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Marceline | Contemporary Life in Missouri | 1938 | tempera | |||
Monett | Products of Missouri | 1939 | ||||
Mount Vernon | Spring Pastoral | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Palmyra | Memories of Marion County | 1939 | oil on canvas, depicts Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Jim | |||
Paris | The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Pleasant Hill | Back Home, April 1895 | Thomas C. Lea III | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Ste. Genevieve | La Guignolee | Martyl Schweig | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
St. Joseph | History of the Region—Settlers Crossing the River | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1941 | |||
History of the Region—First Railway Post Office | ||||||
History of the Region—Flooded River | ||||||
History of the Region—Grain Farmers | ||||||
History of the Region—Horseless Carriage | ||||||
History of the Region—Indian Boat Race | ||||||
History of the Region—Leading Packet Boat | ||||||
History of the Region—Lewis & Clark Expedition | ||||||
History of the Region—Negro River Music | ||||||
History of the Region—Pony Express | ||||||
History of the Region—Railway Station of 1880 | ||||||
History of the Region—Robidaux House | ||||||
St. Louis Gwen B. Stiles Station |
Old Levee and Market at St Louis | Lumen Martin Winter | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
Cycle of history of the region | Mitchell Siporin and |
1942 | the largest single project awarded for a post office by the Section |
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Sullivan | Saturday Afternoon on Main Street | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Union | Aspects of Rural Missouri | 1941 | fresco restored and moved to a new post office building |
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University City | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition | 1940 | ||||
Windsor | Agriculture and Varied Institutes | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Montana[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Billings Post Office and Courthouse, in Billings | Trading Cattle | 1942 | ||||
Deer Lodge | James and Granville Stuart Prospecting in Deer Lodge Valley – 1858 | Verona Burkhard | 1939 | |||
Dillon | News from the States | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1938[11] | |||
Glasgow Post Office and Courthouse, in Glasgow | Montana's Progress | 1942 | It is a 72" x 168" painting that earned the painter $1,250.[81][82] | 1986 | ||
Hamilton | Flat Head War Party | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Sidney | General Sully at Yellowstone | J.K. Ralston | 1942 |
Nebraska[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Albion | Winter in Nebraska | Jenne Magafan | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1992 | |
Auburn United States Post Office in Auburn | Threshing | Ethel Magafan | 1938 | [84] | 1992 | |
Crawford | The Crossing | 1940 | oil on canvas[11] | |||
Geneva U.S. Post Office in Geneva | Building a Sod House | Edward Chavez | 1940 | Completed in 1941; cleaned and restored in 1981.[85] | 1992 | |
Hebron United States Post Office Hebron |
Stampeding Buffaloes Stopping the Train | Eldora Lorenzini | 1939 | oil on canvas[86] | 1992 | |
Minden U.S.P.O. Minden |
Military Post on the Overland Trail | William E. L. Bunn | 1939 | oil on canvas, 13 by 6 feet (4.0 m × 1.8 m) in size[87] | 1983 | |
Ogallala | Long Horns | Frank Mechau | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
United States Post Office in O'Neill | Baling Hay in Holt County in the Early Days | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1992 | ||
USPO (Pawnee), in Pawnee City |
The Auction | Kenneth Evett | 1942 | oil on canvas | 1992 | |
Red Cloud U.S.P.O., in Red Cloud | Loading Cattle | Archie Musick | 1941 | tempera on panel | 1992 | |
Red Cloud | Moving Westward | Archie Musick | 1941 | tempera on panel | 1992 | |
Red Cloud | Stockade Builders | Archie Musick | 1941 | tempera on panel | 1992 | |
United States Post Office (Schuyler, Nebraska) in Schuyler | Wild Horses by Moonlight | Philip von Saltza | 1940 | 1992 | ||
Valentine | The End of the Line | Kady Faulkner | 1939 | tempera on panel |
Nevada[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Lovelock | The Uncovering of the Comstock Lode | Ejnar Hansen | 1940 | 1990 | ||
Winnemucca | Cattle Roundup | 1940 | 1990 | |||
Yerington | Homestead on the Plain | Adolph Gottlieb | 1941 | oil on canvas | 1990 |
New Hampshire[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Lebanon | Rural New Hampshire | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Milford | Lumberman Log-Rolling | 1940 | ||||
Peterborough | New Hampshire Post in Winter | Marguerite Zorach | 1938 | 1986 | ||
Plymouth | John Balch-First Post Rider of New Hampshire | 1938 | fresco | |||
Wolfeboro | New Hampshire Sugar Camp | Andrew Winter | 1938 |
New Jersey[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Atlantic City | Family Recreation | Peppino Mangravite | 1939 | |||
Atlantic City | Youth | Peppino Mangravite | 1939 | |||
Bordentown | Skating on Bonaparte's Pond | 1940 | ||||
The Battle of Crawford During the American Revolution | Gerald Foster | 1937 | ||||
Fort Lee | Indians Trading with the Half Moon | 1941 | ||||
Fort Lee | Washington at Fort Lee | Henry Schnakenberg | 1941 | |||
Fort Lee | Moving Pictures at Fort Lee | Henry Schnakenberg | 1941 | |||
Fort Lee | The Present Day | Henry Schnakenberg | 1941 | |||
Garfield | Transportation of the Mail | Robert Laurent | 1937 | |||
Gloucester | The Perils of the Mail | 1937 | ||||
Glen Ridge | James Chapin | 1938 | ||||
Kearny | The City | Albert Kotin | 1938 | |||
Kearny | The Marsh | Albert Kotin | 1938 | |||
Manalapan | Molly Pitcher | Gerald Foster | 1935 | on display at the Monmouth County Public Library | ||
Newark | Tanner Clark | on display at the Frank J. Lautenberg Post Office and Courthouse |
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New Brunswick | George Washington with DeWitt, Geographer of the Revolutionary Army |
George Biddle | 1939 | |||
New Brunswick | Howe and Cornwallis Entering New Brunswick | George Biddle | 1939 | |||
New Brunswick | Washington Retreating from New Brunswick | George Biddle | 1939 | |||
North Bergen | Purchase of Territory of North Bergen from the Indians |
Avery Johnson | 1942 | |||
Nutley | Return of Annie Oakley | 1941 | ||||
Plainfield | Folklore | Anton Refregier | 1942 | tempera | ||
Plainfield | Quilting Bee | Anton Refregier | 1942 | |||
Princeton | Columbia Under the Palm | 1939 | ||||
Ridgefield | Washington Bridge | 1937 | ||||
Riverside | Town of Progress – 1855 | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
South Orange | Outdoor Activities of South Orange | Bernard Perlin | 1939 | |||
Washington | A Raising in Early New Jersey | 1940 | ||||
Westfield | The New Stagecoach | Roy Hilton | 1939 | |||
Westfield | Building of Westfield | Roy Hilton | 1939 | destroyed during 1964 renovations | ||
West New York | View from the Palisades – West New York 1939 | 1939 | ||||
Wildwood | Activities of the Fishing Fleet | 1939 | 2 panels |
New Mexico[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Clovis | New Mexican Town | 1937 | ||||
Deming Main Post Office, Deming | Mountains and Yucca | 1937 | 1990 | |||
US Post Office-Portales Main, in Portales | Buffalo Range | Theodore Van Soelen | 1938 | 1990 | ||
Raton | First Mail Crossing Raton Pass | 1936 | ||||
Raton | Unloading the Mail in Raton | Joseph A. Fleck | 1936 | |||
US Post Office-Truth or Consequences Main, in Truth or Consequences Geronimo Springs station |
Indian Bear Dance[92] | Boris Deutsch | 1938 |
New York[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Akron | Horse-Drawn Railroad | 1941 | tempera | yes | ||
Albany James T. Foley U.S. Post Office and Courthouse |
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Albion | Along the Barge Canal | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Amsterdam | Departure of a Packet Boat | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Amsterdam | Sir William Johnson Conferring with the Indians | Henry Schnakenberg | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Attica | Fall in the Genesse Country | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Baldwinsville | Gateway to the West | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Beacon | Views of Mid-Hudson Region | Charles Rosen | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Binghamton | Communication | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Boonville | The Black River Canal – 1845 | and |
1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Bronxville | The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville, 1846 | John Sloan | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Canajoharie | Invention of a Paper Bag in Canajoharie | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Canastota | The Onion Fields | Alison Mason Kingsbury | 1942 | tempera on canvas | yes | |
Clyde | Apple Pickers | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Delhi | Down-Rent War, Around 1845 | 1940 | yes | |||
Delmar | The Indian Ladder | 1940 | yes | |||
Depew | Beginning of the Day | Anne Poor | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Dolgeville | Underground Railroad | James Michael Newell | 1940 | fresco | yes | |
East Rochester | Recreation Hours | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Ellenville | Establishment of First Post Office in Ellenville in 1823 | Louis Bouche | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Endicott | Endicott, 1901 – Excavating for the Ideal Factory | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Fort Edward | Lock on the Champlain Canal, Fort Edward | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Fredonia | Arnold Blanch | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Freeport | Air Mail | William Gropper | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Freeport | Suburban Post in Winter | William Gropper | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Fulton | Father LeMoyne Trying to Convert the Indians on Pathfinders Island | Caroline S. Rohland | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Garden City | Huckleberry Frolic | J. Theodore Johnson | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Goshen | The Running of the Hambletonian Stakes | Georgina Klitgaard | 1937 | yes | ||
Harrison | Early Days of the Automobile | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Hempstead | Scene of the settlement of Hempstead and the arrival of the British dirigible R.34 with the first air mail in 1919 |
Peppino Mangravite | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Homer | Albany Street Bridge | 1940 | yes | |||
Honeoye Falls | The Life of the Senecas | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Hudson Falls | Scenes and Activities of Hudson | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Huntington | Huntington Harbor | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Hyde Park | Professions and Industries of Hyde Park | Olin Dows | 1941 | yes | ||
Johnson City | Scenes of post service, local industries, and other activities typical of the community |
1937 | yes | |||
Lake George | Lake George | 1942 | yes | |||
Lake Placid | Scenes of winter sports | Henry Billings | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Lancaster | Early Commerce in the Erie Canal Region | Arthur Getz | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Long Beach | The Pleasures of the Bathing Beach | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Middleburgh | Dance of the Hop Pickers | 1941 | oil and tempera | yes | ||
Middleport | Rural Highway | Marianne Appel | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Mount Kisco | Indian Cornfield | 1936 | oil on canvas | |||
Mount Kisco | Mount Kisco in 1850 | Thomas Donnelly | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
New Rochelle | The Huguenots Lay the Foundations of the City of New Rochelle | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
New Rochelle | John Pell Receives Partial Payment for 6,000 Acres | David Hutchison | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
New Rochelle | The Post Rider Brings News of the Battle of Lexington | David Hutchison | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
New York City The Bronx Central Station |
Resources of America | Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn |
1939 | 13 panels egg tempera on plaster |
yes | |
New York City The Bronx Central Station |
Washington and the Battle of the Bronx | and Abraham Lishinsky |
1942 | oil on canvas | ||
New York City Manhattan General Station |
The Triborough Bridge in Process of Construction | Louis Lozowick and Joseph Kaplan |
oil on canvas | |||
New York City Manhattan General Station |
Sky Line and Waterfront Traffic as Seen from Manhattan Bridge | Louis Lozowick and Joseph Kaplan |
oil on canvas | |||
New York City Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Station |
Scenes of New York | Kindred McLeary | started 1937 completed 1939 |
8 panels tempera on plaster |
yes | |
New York City Queens Jackson Station |
Development of Jackson Heights | Peppino Mangravite | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
New York City Queens Wood Station |
The First Amendment | Ben Shahn | 1941 | |||
Nyack | Scenes of local history in the colonial period | Jacob Getlar Smith and |
1936 | yes | ||
Oxford | Family Reunion on Clark Island, Spring 1791 | 1941 | tempera | yes | ||
Oyster Bay | Scenes of local history | Ernest Peixotto and |
1937 | yes | ||
Oyster Bay | Allegory of North America receiving mail from world | 1936 | ||||
Painted Post | Recording the Victory[95] | Amy Jones[96] | 1939 | yes | ||
Port Chester | 1936 | four large murals and nine lunettes depicting dock workers, millowners, tool and die workers and the Life Savers Building |
yes | |||
Port Washington | Lighthouse | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Port Washington | Sailing | Harry S. Lane | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Port Washington | Landscape | Harry S. Lane | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Poughkeepsie | Poughkeepsie circa 1692 | Gerald Foster | 1938 | yes | ||
Poughkeepsie | July 26, 1781, New York State Ratifies the United States Constitution in the Dutchess County Court House in Poughkeepsie |
Gerald Foster | 1938 | |||
Poughkeepsie | Hamlet of Poughkeepsie | Gerald Foster | 1938 | |||
Rhinebeck | Scenes of local history | Olin Dows | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Richfield Springs | Local landscape | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Rockville Centre | Scenes of local history | 1939 | oil on canvas 4 panels |
yes | ||
Rome | Barn Raising | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Rye | John Jay at His Home | Guy Pene du Bois | 1938 | yes | ||
St. Johnsville | Mohawk Valley – Early St. Johnsville Pioneers | Jirayr H. Zorthian | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Saratoga Springs | Saratoga in Racing Season | Guy Pene du Bois | 1937 | 2 panels | ||
Scarsdale | Caleb Heathcote Buys the Richbell Farm | Gordon Samstag | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Scarsdale | Law and Order in Old Scarsdale Manor | Gordon Samstag | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Scotia | The Glen Family Spared by French and Indians – 1690 | Amy Jones | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
Spring Valley | Waiting for the Mail | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Springville | Fiddler’s Green | Victoria Hutson Huntley | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Ticonderoga | The Exhortation of Ethan Allen | Frederick Massa | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Troy | Legends of the Hudson | Waldo Peirce | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Troy | Rip Van Winkle | Waldo Peirce | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Waverly | Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity | Musa McKim | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Westhampton Beach | Outdoor Sports | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Whitehall | Settlement of Skenesborough | Axel Horn | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes |
North Carolina[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[19] |
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Ahoskie | Peanut Harvest | Julien Binford | missing[22] | |||
Albemarle | View Near Albemarle | Louis Ribak | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Beaufort | Crissy Wright | Simka Simkhovitch | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Beaufort | Goose Decoys | Simka Simkhovitch | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Beaufort | Mail to Cape Lookout | Simka Simkhovitch | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Beaufort | Sand Ponies | Simka Simkhovitch | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Belmont | Mayor Chronicle's South Fork Boys | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Boone | Daniel Boone on a Hunting Trip in Watauga County | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1996 | ||
Brevard | Good News | Pietro Lazzari | 1941 | glazed tempera | ||
Burlington | Cotton Textiles Historical Railroad Station |
1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Chapel Hill | Laying the Old Cornerstone of Old East | Dean Cornwell | 1941 | Mural depicts the laying of the cornerstone of "Old East", the first building of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in October 1793. |
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Concord | The Spirit of North Carolina | Edward Buk Ulreich | 1942 | |||
Gastonia | Cotton Field and Spinning Mill | Francis Speight | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Kings Mountain | Battle of Kings Mountain | Verona Burkhard | 1939 | |||
Laurinburg | Fruits of the Land | Agnes Tait | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Lincolnton | Threshing Grain | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Louisburg | Tobacco Auction | Richard Kenah | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Madison | Early Summer in North Carolina | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Mebane | Landscape-Tobacco Curing | Margaret C. Gates copy by |
1941 | oil on canvas; "destroyed; copy by Henry D. Rood installed in 1964"[22] | ||
Mooresville | North Carolina Cotton Industry | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Morganton | Sir Walter Raleigh and First Landing on the North Carolina Shore |
Dean Cornwell | 1938 | |||
New Bern | The Bayard Singleton Case, first printing press in North Carolina, First Provincial Convention in North Carolina (1774) |
1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Red Springs | War-The Battle of Kittle Raft Swamp The Coming of the Scots Peace- Work and Knowledge |
1941 | ||||
Reidsville | Tobacco | Gordon Samstag | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Roanoke Rapids | Cotten Pickers | 1938 | missing[22] | |||
Rockingham | The Past as Connecting Threads in Human Life | Edward Laning | 1937 | triptych, oil on canvas | ||
Roxboro | Gathering Tobacco | 1938 | "now Piedmont Technical Institute"[22] | |||
Sanford | The Kinfolk of Virginia Dare | Pietro Lazzari | 1938 | |||
Siler City | Building the First House at Siler's Crossroads | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Southern Pines | horses | 1943 | oil on canvas | |||
Wake Forest | Richness of the Soil No. 2 | Harold Egan | 1941 | |||
Wallace | Daydreams | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Warrenton | North Carolina Pastoral | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Whiteville | Harvesting Tobacco | 1941 | tempera; missing[22] | |||
Williamston | First Flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk | Philip von Saltza | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1995, as part of the Williamston Commercial Historic District | |
Wilmington | Port of Wilmington | 1940 | oil on canvas |
North Dakota[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Langdon | Indians Demanding Wagon Toll | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
New Rockford | Advance Guard of the West | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1989 | ||
Rugby | Rugby, the Geographical Center of North America | Kenneth Callahan | 1943 | oil on canvas | 1989 |
Ohio[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Ada | Country Dance | Albert Kotin | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Amherst | Pioneers Cross the Ohio River | Michael Loew | 1941 | oil on canvas Building is now the city's headquarters for a “Main Street” revitalization project. |
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Barnesville | Airmail | Michael Sarisky | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Bedford | Drift Towards Industrialism | 1937 | oil on canvas Building now used by as offices for an architectural firm. |
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Bellevue | Ohio | Paul Meltsner | 1937 | |||
Bluffton | Joseph Deford and His Friends Build the First Cabin in Bluffton | Sante Graziani | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Bridgeport | Ohio Harvest | Richard Kenah | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Caldwell | Noble County-Ohio | Robert Lepper | 1938 | tempera | ||
Canton | Steel Industry | Glenn Shaw | 1934–37 | Thirteen panels | ||
Chardon | Maple Sugar Camp | 1942 | oil on canvas Mural has been moved to an office nearby |
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Cincinnati | Landmarks of Cincinnati | Paul Chidlaw Richard Zoellner |
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Cleveland Main Post Office |
Post Office Interiors | 1936 | oil on canvas Two panels |
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Cleveland Pearlbrook Branch |
Ore Docks and Steel Mills | Richard Zoellner | 1938 | |||
Cleveland University Center Branch |
Historical and Modern Scenes of Cleveland[22] | and |
1937 | |||
Coldwater | Coldwater Activities | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Crestline | The Crossroads-Crestline, Ohio | Gifford Beal | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
Dennison | Passenger Pigeon | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
East Liverpool | Old Bennett Pottery Plant | "Building no longer a Post Office"[22] | ||||
East Palestine | Early East Palestine and Dr. Rhett Chamberlain's Post Office and Warehouse | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Eaton | Van Ausdel's Trading Post | Roland Schweinsburg | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Fairborn "formerly Osborn"[22] |
Wright Brothers in Ohio | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Gambier | Bishop C. Chase Selects Site of Kenyon College | 1943 | oil on canvas | |||
Geneva | Rural Homestead | William Sommer | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Georgetown | Tobacco Harvest | Richard Zoellner | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Girard | Workers of the Soil | John Edward Costigan | 1938 | Mural destroyed[22] | ||
Granville | First Pulpit in Granville | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Hamilton | Fort Hamilton Agriculture Industries of Hamilton |
Richard Zoellner | 1934 | Six panels | ||
Hubbard | Steel Industry | Hugh Mesibov | 1934 | oil on canvas | ||
Louisville | Farn and Mill | Herschel Levit | 1941 | tempera | ||
McConnelsville, | Mail-the Connecting Link | Sally Haley | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Marrysville | The Farmer | 1940 | fresco | |||
Maumee | Communication | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Medina | Gathering the Apple Crop | Richard Zoellner | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural was destroyed[22] |
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Montpelier | Harvest, the Annals of America | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Mount Gilead | Pioneering to Progress | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
New Concord | Skaters | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
New Lexington | Great Men Came from the Hills | Isabel Bishop | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
New London | New London Facets | 1940 | oil on canvas The only officially Section mural to be labeled "abstract"[101] |
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Oak Harbor | Early Oak Harbor | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Orrville | Judge Smith Orr and Robert Taggard Planning the New Settlement at Orville-1852 | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Perrysburg | Building of fort Meigs 1813 | Glenn Shaw | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Portsmouth | Characteristic Local Scenes in Portsmouth | Clarence Carter | 1938 | oil on canvas Four panels |
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Portsmouth | Waterfront and Coal Barges |
Richard Zoellner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Ravenna | Early Ravenna | Clarence Carter | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Springfield | Printing in Springfield and manufacture of farm implements |
1937 | ||||
Tipp City | Construction of Miami-Erie Canal in Miami City | 1940 | tempera | |||
Upper Sandusky | The Mail | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Wadsworth | They came as Wadsworth's First Settler after the War of 1812 | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Wapaknneta | Wapakonata and American History | 1937 | ||||
Warren | Romance of Steel, Old and Romance of Steel, Modern |
Glenn Shaw | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Wauseon | Cooperative Planning and Development in Wauseon | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Waverly | Arrival of Packet | Roy Best | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Westerville | The Daily Mail | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Willard | The Roundhouse | Mitchell Jamieson | 1941 | oil on canvas[11] | ||
Willoughby | White Man's First Sight of Lake Erie | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural is "missing?"[22] |
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Yellow Springs | Yellow Springs-Preparation for Lifework | Axel Horn | 1941 | oil on canvas |
Oklahoma[]
[22][97][102] A number of Oklahoma post offices were listed on the National Register as part of the " Oklahoma Post Offices with Section Art Multiple Property Submission", including those in Coalgate, Hollis, Madill, Nowata, and Watonga.
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anadarko | Stephen Mopope | 1938 | oil on canvas Stephen Mopope, a Kiowa artist, was part of the Kiowa Six "Sixteen panels on Indian life"[22] |
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Claremore | Will Rogers | Randall Davey | 1939 | tempera | ||
Clinton | Race for Land | 1938 | oil on canvas "moved?"[22] |
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United States Post Office Coalgate, in Coalgate | Women Making Pishafa[103] also known as Indian Family at Routine Tasks |
Acee Blue Eagle | 1942 | acrylic and tempera[103] Acee Blue Eagle, the artist, was Muscogee Creek Mural was restored by Fred Beaver (Seminole/Muscogee) in 1965[104] |
2009[103] | |
Cordell | The Scene Changes | Ila Turner McAfee | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Drumright | Oklahoma Land Rush | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Edmond | Pre-Settlement Days | Ila Turner McAfee | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Guymon | Harvest | 1939 ?[22] | Mural was destroyed[22] | |||
United States Post Office Hollis, in Hollis | Planning the Route | 1941 | oil and egg tempera | 2009 | ||
Hugo | The Red Man of Oklahoma Sees the First Stage Coach | Joseph Fleck | 1937 | oil on canvas The original post office is now the Hugo School System Administration Building |
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Idabel | The Last Home of the Chocktaw Nations | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
United States Post Office Madill, in Madill | Prairie Fire | Ethel Magafan | 1941 | tempera | 2009 | |
Marietta | Chickasaw Indian Family Making Pah Sho Fah | Solomon McCombs | oil on canvas Solomon McCombs, the artist, was Muscogee Creek. The mural was restored by Fred Beaver[22] |
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Marlow | Cattle Days | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
United States Post Office Nowata, in Nowata | Rainbow Trail | Woodrow Crumbo | 1943 | tempera. Artist was Citizen Potawatomi. | 2009 | |
Okemah | Grand Council on 1842 | Walter Richard West | 1941 | tempera. Artist was Southern Cheyenne. | ||
Pawhiska | Osage Treaties | Olive Rush | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Perry | Range Branding Downby the Big Tank | 1941 | oil on canvas Mural was damaged and relocated to the [22] |
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Poteau | Cotton | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Purcell | The Roundup | Fred Conway | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Sayre | The Opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country | Vance Kirkland | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Seminole | Seminole Indian Scene | Acee Blue Eagle | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Stillwater | Early Days in Payne County | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Stilwell | Cherokee Farming and Animal Husbandry | Olga Mohr | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Sulphir | Romance of the Mail | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Tahlequah | Choctaw Ball-Play, 1840 | Manuel Bromberg | 1939 | oil on canvas |
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Vinita | History of the Cherokee Nation | Randall Davey | 1941 | tempera | ||
United States Post Office Watonga, in Watonga | Roman Nose Canyon | Edith Mahier | 1941 | Oil on canvas Controversial in its depiction of Native Americans when it was completed, this is the best-known of Oklahoma post office murals. Shows Cheyenne chief Henry Roman Nose with his family at confrontation with white settlers.[105] |
2009 | |
Waurika | Wild Geese | Theodore Van Soelen | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Weatherford | Terminus of the Railroad, 1898–1901 | Oscar Berninghaus | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Wewoka | Historical Background of Wewoka | Marjorie Rowland Clarke | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Yukon | The Run – April 22, 1889, Taking the Lead | Dahlov Ipcar | 1941 | oil on canvas |
Oregon[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Burns | Cattle Roundup | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Eugene | Willamette Valley Lumber, Farming and Husbandry | Carl Morris | 1943 | |||
Grants Pass | Rogue River Indians | 1938 | tempera | |||
Grants Pass | Early and Contemporary Industries | 1938 | tempera | |||
Newburg | Early Mail Carriers in the West | 1937 | oli on canvas | |||
Ontario | Trail to Oregon | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Portland | Post Rider | 1936 | destroyed[22] | |||
Saint Johns | Development of St. Johns | assisted by and |
1936 | oil on canvas several murals |
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Salem | Builders of Salem | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Tillamook | Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay | Lucia Wiley | 1943 | Fresco secco |
Pennsylvania[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Aliquippa | Western Pennsylvania | Niles Spencer | 1938 | oil on canvas Currently in the National Museum of American Art |
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Allentown | Ten panels on the area[22] | Gifford Beal | 1939 | oil on canvas 10 panels |
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Altoona | Pioneers of Altoona | Lorin Thompson | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Altoona | Growth of the Road | Lorin Thompson | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Altoona | Created under the PWAP program Mural is missing[108] |
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Ambler | The Family-Industry and Agriculture | Harry Sternberg | 1939 | oil on canvas The artist painted himself and his wife and child as The Family[109] |
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Athens | General Sullivan at Tioga Point | Allen Jones | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Bangor | Slate Belt People | 1941 | ||||
Beaver Falls | The Armistice Letter | Eugene Higgins | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Belle Vernon | Men of Coal and Steel | Michael Loew | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Bridgeville | Smelting | 1941 | fresco Mural was destroyed |
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Brownsville | Showing the People in the Early Days Transferring from Stagecoach to Boat | Richard Lahey | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Burgettstown | View of Burgettstown | John Fulton Folinsbee | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
California | Monongahela River | Saul Berman | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Canonsburg | Beatty's Barn | Peter Blume | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Catasauqua | Arrival of the Stage | F. Luis Mora | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Columbia | Columbia Bridge | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Doylestown | William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Elizabethtown | Squaw's Rest | Lee Gatch | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Farrell | Myths of Vulcan and Juno | (Riggs) | 1939 | Painted over in 1966[22] | ||
Freeland | Freeland | John Fulton Folinsbee | 1938 | oil on canvas "This mural depicts a view of Freeland from Butler Terrace. Familiar buildings of the town may be seen at the left. In the central section are the mine and large breaker. In the right foreground is the Drifton State Bank, a landmark of the vicinity." — John Folinsbee[110] |
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Honesdale | Canal Boat | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Honesdale | Clearing the Wilderness | Walter Gardner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Honesdale | Coal | Walter Gardner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Honesdale | Gravity Railroad | Walter Gardner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Honesdale | Visit by Washington Irving | Walter Gardner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Jeannette | Battle of Bushy Run | designed by painted by and/or |
1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Jenkintown | General Washington's Troops on the Old York Road | 1942 | tempera Stored in Jenkintown H.S.[22] |
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Kutztown | Rural Route Number One | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Manheim | The First Orchestra in America | Theresa Bernstein | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Masontown | General LaFayette is Welcomed at Friendship Hill by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin on May 27, 1925 | 1941 | ||||
Mercer | Clearing the Land | Lorin Thompson | oil on canvas | |||
Morrisville | Canal Era | Yngve Soderberg | 1939 | |||
Mount Union | The Union of the Mountains | Paul Rohland | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Muncy | Rachel Silverthorne's Ride | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Nazerath | Cement Industry | Ryah Ludins | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Norristown | Local Industry | 1936 | oil on canvas | |||
Norristown | U.S. Mail | Paul Mays | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Philadelphia Custom House and Appraisers Stores |
Customs and Court Activities and Various Court Activities | George Harding | 1938 | Thirty-one panels | ||
Philadelphia Kingsessing Branch |
Philadelphia Waterways with Ben Franklin Bridge | Moses Soyer and Raphael Soyer |
1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Philadelphia Kingsessing Branch |
View of Downtown Philadelphia Skyline | Moses Soyer and Raphael Soyer |
1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Mail Delivery | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
City | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Country | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Northern Coast | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Office | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Home | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
Tropics | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia North Philadelphia Branch |
History of Mail Transportation by Water | George Harding | 1939 | tempera | ||
Philadelphia Southwark Branch |
Iron Plantation near Southwark-1800 | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Philadelphia Southwark Branch |
Shopyards at Southwark-1800 | Robert Larter | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Philadelphia Spring Garden Branch 7th & Thompson |
Streets of Philadelphia | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Pittsburgh PO and Court House |
Steel Industry | Howard Cook | 1936 | fresco | ||
Pittsburgh PO and Court House |
Modern Justice | Kindred McLeary | 1937 | Mural was painted over[22] | ||
Pittsburgh PO and Court House |
Pittsburgh Panorama | Stuyvesant Van Veen | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Pittsburgh Squirrel Hill PO |
History of Squirrel Hill | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Plymouth | Meal Time with the Early Coal Miners | Jared French | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Quakertown | Quaker Settlers | Bertram Goodman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Renovo | Locomotive Repair Operation | 1943 | oil on canvas | |||
Roaring Spring | Mountain Landscape | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Scottdale | Local Life and Industries | 1937 | oil on canvas Three panels |
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Scranton West Scranton Branch |
Nature's Storehouse | Herman Maril | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Sellersville | Carrying the Mail | Harry Sternberg | 1937 | tempera | ||
Selinsgrove | Susquehanna Trail | George Rickey | 1939 | tempera | ||
Somerset | Somerset-Farm Scene | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Tunkhannock | Defenders of the Wyoming Country-1778 | Ethel Ashton | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Vandergrift | Railroad Postal Service | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Wayne | Anthony Wayne | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Wilkes Barre | Anthracite Coal | George Harding | 1941 | tempera |
Puerto Rico[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Mayaguez | The Indian Mail System | 1940 | ||||
Mayaguez | Receipt of the First Official Spanish Mail in the Island of Puerto Rico in 1541 | Jose Maduro | 1940 |
Rhode Island[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Apponaug | Apponaug Fishermen | Paul Sample | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
East Providence | The Hurricane | Eugene Kingman | 1939 | oil on wall | ||
East Providence | Seeconk River | Eugene Kingman | 1939 | oil on wall | ||
East Providence | East Providence | Eugene Kingman | 1939 | oil on wall | ||
East Providence | The Map | Eugene Kingman | 1939 | oil on wall | ||
East Providence | After the Storm | Eugene Kingman | 1939 | oil on wall | ||
Wakefield | Activities of the Narragansett Planters | Ernest Hamlin Baker | 1940 | oil on canvas |
South Carolina[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Aiken | Justice as Protector and Avenger | Stefan Hirsch | 1938 | oil on canvas Controversy caused the mural to be covered and only visible to the public upon request.[114] |
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Anderson | Corn, Cotton and Tobacco Culture | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Bamberg | Cotton the World Over | 1939 | oil on canvas | Yes | ||
Batesburg-Leesville | Peach Orchard | 1941 | ||||
Clemson | Meeting of the Original Directors of Clemson College | 1941 | oil on canvas On display at Hardin Hall on the campus of Clemson University |
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Greer | Cotton and Peach Growing | 1939 | On display at the Greer Heritage Museum. | 2011 | ||
Kingstree | Rice Growing | Arnold Friedman | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Mullins | Tobacco Industry | Lee Gatch | 1940 | Mural is missing | ||
Summerville | Train Time - Summerville | Bernadine Custer | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Walterboro | Past and Present Agriculture and Industry of Colleton County | Sheffield Kagy | 1938 | |||
Ware Shoals | American Landscape | Alice Kindler | 1940 | |||
Winnsboro | Industrial Tapestry | Auriel Bessemer | 1938 | Landscape | ||
Woodruff | Cotton Harvest | Abraham Lishinsky | 1941 | Restored in 1999 On display at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. |
South Dakota[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Beresford | Spirit of Beresford | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Flandreau | Wheat in the Shock | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Mobridge | Return from the Fields | Elof Wedin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Sturgis | The Fate of a Mail Carrier – Charlie Nolan – 1876 | J.K. Ralston | 1939 | oil on canvas Moved to new post office in 1998[116] |
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Webster | The First White Man in South Dakota | 1939 | oil on canvas |
Tennessee[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Bolivar | Picking Cotton | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Camden | Mail Delivery to Tranquility- the First Post Office in Benton County |
1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Chattanooga | Allegory of Chattanooga | Hilton Leech | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Clarksville | Arrival of Col. John Donaldson | F. Luis Mora | 1938 | oil on canvas Destroyed |
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Clarksville | Abundance of Today | F. Luis Mora | 1938 | oil on canvas Destroyed |
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Clinton | Farm and Factory | Horace Day | 1940 | tempera Relocated to new Clinton P.O. building in 1989.[119] |
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Columbia | Maury County Landscape | Henry Billings | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Crossville | The Partnership of Man and Nature | Marion Greenwood | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Dayton | View from Johnson's Bluff | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Dickson | People of the Soil | Edwin Boyd Johnson | 1939 | fresco | ||
Dresden | Retrospection | Minetta Good | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Gleason | Gleason Agriculture | Anne Poor | 1942 | oil on canvas One of final murals painted in Tennessee for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts |
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Jefferson City | Great Smokies and Tennessee Farms | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Johnson City | Farmer Family | 1940 | Mural is missing | |||
La Follette | In the Shores of the Lake | Dahlov Ipcar | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Lenoir City | Electrification | David Stone Martin | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Lewisburg | Coming 'Round the Mountain | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Lexington | Progress of Power | Grace Greenwood (Ames) | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Livingston | The New Comers | Margaret Covey Chisholm | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
McKenzie | Early US Post Village | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Manchester | Horse Swapping Day | Minna Citron | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Pleasant | Early Settlers Entering Mount Pleasant | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Newport | TVA Power | Minna Citron | 1940 | oil on canvas, two panels On loan to DAR Museum |
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Ripley | Autumn | Marguerite Zorach | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Sweetwater | Wild Boar Hunt | 1942 | egg tempera |
Texas[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Alice | South Texas Panorama | 1939 | Mural is missing | |||
Alpine | View of Alpine | Jose Moya del Pino | 1940 | oil on masonite | ||
Alvin | Emigrants at Nightfall | 1942 | oil on canvas Alvin Historical Museum,302 W. Sealy St |
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Amarillo | Cattle Loading, Cattle Branding, Oil Gang Plow, Dick Harrow, | Julius Woeltz | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Amarillo | Coronado's Expedition in the Palo Duro Canyon | Julius Woeltz | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Anson | Cowboy Dance | Jenne Magafan | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Arlington | Gathering Pecans | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Big Spring | Old Pioneers | Peter Hurd | 1938 | fresco | ||
Brady | Texas Immigrants | Gordon Grant | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Brownfield | Ranchers of the Panhandle Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas Relocated to the Brownfield Police Headquarters[122] |
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Caldwell | Indians Moving | Suzanne Scheuer | 1939 | oil on canvas, Relocated to Burleson County Courthouse[123] A colored pencil on paperboard study is at Smithsonian Art Museum[124] |
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Canyon | Strays | 1939 | oil on canvas Mural has been relocated to the new Canyon P.O. building |
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Center | Logging Scene | Edward Chavez | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Clifton | Texas Longhorns – A Vanishing Breed | Ila Turner McAfee | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
College Station | Good Technique – Good Harvest | Victor Arnautoff | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural is missing |
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Conroe | Early Texans | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural destroyed; a study is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art[125] |
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Cooper | Before the Fencing of Delta County | Lloyd Goff | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Corpus Christi | The Sea: Port Activitiesand Harbor Activitie | Howard Cook | 1941 | tempera | ||
Corpus Christi | The Land: Agriculture, Mineral Resources and Ranching | Howard Cook | 1941 | tempera | ||
Dallas | Eastbound Mailstage | Peter Hurd | 1940 | |||
Dallas | Air Mail Over Texas | Peter Hurd | 1940 | |||
Dallas | Pioneer Homebuilders | Peter Hurd | 1940 | |||
Decatur | Texas Plains | Ray Strong | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Eastland | Buffalo Hunt | Suzanne Scheuer | 1938 | oil on canvas A colored pencil on paperboard study is at Smithsonian Art Museum[124] |
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Edinburg | Harvest of the Rio Grande Valley | 1940 | oil and tempera on canvas | |||
El Campo | Landscape | Milford Zornes | 1940 | oil on canvas Mural is "in storage"[126] |
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Elgin | Texas Farm | Julius Woeltz | 1940 | |||
Farmersville | Soil Conservation in Collin County | Jerry Bywaters | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Fort Worth | The Taking of Sam Bass | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Fort Worth | Two Texas Rangers | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Fort Worth | Flags Over Texas | Frank Mechau | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Fredericksburg | Loading Cattle | 1942 | oil on canvas[11] | |||
Gatesville | Off to Northern Markets | Joe De Yong | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Giddings | Cowboys Receiving the Mail | Otis Dozoer | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Goose Creek | Texas | Barse Miller | 1938 | tempera | ||
Graham | Oil Fields of Graham | Alexandre Hogue | 1939 | oil on canvas On display at the Young County Historical Museum |
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Hamilton | Texas Rangers in Camp | 1942 | fresco secco | |||
Henderson | Local Industries | Paul Ninas | 1937 | fresco Destroyed |
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Houston | Houston Ship Canal | Jerry Bywaters | 1941 | 2 panels | ||
Houston | Houston Ship Canal-Early History | Alexandre Hogue | 1941 | 2 panels | ||
Jasper | Industries in Jasper | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Kaufman | Driving the Steers | Margaret Dobson | 1939 | fresco Mural has been covered over.[22] |
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Kenedy | Grist for the Mill | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Kilgore | Pioneer Saga | Xavier Gonzalez | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Kilgore | Drilling for Oil | Xavier Gonzalez | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Kilgore | Music of Plains | Xavier Gonzalez | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Kilgore | Contemporary Youth | Xavier Gonzalez | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
La Grange | Horses | 1939 | oil on canvas Mural is missing |
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Lamesa | The Horse Breakers | Fletcher Martin | 1940 | oil on canvas[11] | ||
Lampasas | Afternoon on a Texas Ranch | Ethel Edwards | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Liberty | The Story of the Big Fish | Howard Fisher | 1839 | oil on canvas | ||
Linden | The Last Crop | Victor Arnautoff | 1938 | |||
Livingston | Landscape | Theodore Van Soelen | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Livingston | Buffalo Hunting | Theodore Van Soelen | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Lockhart | Pony Express Station | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Longview | Rural East Texas | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Mart | McLennan Looking for a Home | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Mineola | New and Old Methods of Transportation | Bernard Zakheim | 1938 | oil on canvas Destroyed |
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Mission | Scene Along the Rio grande | Xavier Gonzalez | 1942 | |||
Odessa | Stampede | Tom Lea | 1940 | oil on canvas Relocated to the new Odessa P.O."[22] |
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Quanah | The Naming of Quanah | Jerry Bywaters | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Ranger | The Crossroads Town | Emil Bisttram | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Robstown | Founding and Subsequent Development of Robstown, Texas | 1941 | ||||
Rockdale | Industry in Rockdale | 1937 ? | oil on canvas | |||
Rosenberg | LaSalle's Last Expedition | William Dean Fausett | 1941 | Mural was destroyed | ||
Rusk | Agriculture and Industry at Risk | Bernard Zakheim | 1939 | tempera | ||
San Antonio | San Antonio's Importance in Texas History | Howard Cook | 1939 | fresco 16 panels |
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Seymour | Comanches | Tom Lea | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Smithville | The Law, Texas Rangers | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Teague | Cattle Roundup | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Trinity | Lumber Manufacturing | Jerry Bywaters | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Wellington | Settlers in Collingsworth County | 1940 | tempera |
Utah[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Beaver | Life on the Plains | 1943 | oil on canvas | |||
Helper | Western Town | Jenne Magafan | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Provo | Early and Modern Provo | 1942 | oil on canvas |
Vermont[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Northfield | Skiers, Maple Sugar, Agriculture | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Northfield | Granite | Charles Daugherty | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Rutland | Early History of Vermont | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Saint Albans | Haying | Philip von Saltza | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Saint Albans | Sugaring Off | Philip von Saltza | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
White River Junction | Vermont Industries | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Woodstock | Cycle of Development of Woodstock | Bernadine Custer | 1940 | oil on canvas |
Virgin Islands[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Charlotte Amalie | The Virgin Islands, U.S. – The Outer World Significance | Stevan Dohanos | 1941 | tempera | ||
Charlotte Amalie | The Virgin Islands, U.S. – The Leisurly Native Tempo | Stevan Dohanos | 1941 | tempera |
Virginia[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Altavista | The Growing Community | Herman Maril | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Appalachia | Appalachia | Lucile Blanch | 1940 | oil on canvas[11] | ||
Arlington | An Old-Fashioned Picnic at Great Falls | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | yes | ||
Arlington | Apple Harvest | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |||
Arlington | Arlington Polo Players at Fort Meyer | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |||
Arlington | Captain John Smith Meets the Massawomek Indians | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |||
Arlington | Robert E. Lee Accepting Command of the Armies in Virginia | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |||
Arlington | Tobacco Picking in the Late Colonial Era | Auriel Bessemer | 1940 | |||
Bassett | Manufacture of Furniture | 1939 | fresco | |||
Berryville | Clark County Products, 1939 | 1940 | ||||
Bluefield | Coal Mining | Richard Kenah | 1942 | tempera | ||
Chatham | Harvest Season in Southern Virginia | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Christiansburg | Great Road | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | ||
Emporia | Country Saw Mill | Andree Ruellan | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Harrisonburg | County Fair, Trading, Courthouse Square | 1943 | four panels | |||
Hopewell | Capt. Francis Eppes Making Friends with the Appomattox Indians | Edmund Archer | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Luray | Luray-1840 | Sheffield Kagy | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Orange | Upland Pastures | Arnold Friedman | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Petersburg | Agricultural Scenes in Virginia | William Calfee | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Petersburg | Riding to Hounds | 1937 | ||||
Phoebus | Chesapeake Fisherman | William Calfee | 1941 | fresco | ||
Radford | The return of Mary Draper Ingles | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Richmond | Pocahontas rescuing Captain John Smith | Paul Cadmus | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Richmond | Sir Walter Raleigh | Paul Cadmus | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Richmond | William Byrd | Paul Cadmus | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Richmond | Stuart's Raiders at the Swollen Ford | Jared French | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Richmond | Jeb Stuart | Jared French | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Richmond | John Pelham | Jared French | 1939 | Relocated to the Federal Office Building in Richmond | ||
Rocky Mount | Life in Rockymount | 1938 | 3 panels | |||
Smithfield | Captain John Smith Trading with the Indians | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Strasburg | Apple Orchard | Sarah Jane Blakeslee | 1938 | |||
Stuart | Receiving the Mail on the Farm | John E. Costigan | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Tazewell | Sheep-Mother and Child and Mining | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Virginia Beach | Old Dominion Conversation Piece | 1939 | oil on canvas |
Washington[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anacortes | Halibut Fishing | Kenneth Callahan | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Bremerton | Northwest Logging | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Camas | Beginning of a New World | 1941 | tempera | |||
Centralia, | Industries of Lewis County | Kenneth Callahan | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Colville | Hudson's Bay-The Pathfinders | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Kelso | Incidents in the Lives of Lewis and Clark | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Lynden | Three Ages of Phoebe Goodell Judson | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Mount Vernon | Local Pursuits | Ambrose McCarthy | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Prosser | Mail Train in the '80s | 1937 | oil on canvas | |||
Renton | Miners at Work | Jacob Elshin | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Seattle University Sta. |
Historical View of Education | Jacob Elshin | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Sedro-Woolley | Loggers and Millworkers | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Shelton | Skid Road | Richard Haines | 1940 | tempera | ||
Snohomish | Construction of a Skid Road in the '80s | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Toppenish | Local Theme | 1940 | oil on canvas Toppenish post office is located entirely within the Yakama Indian Nation |
1991 | ||
Wenatchee | The Saga of Wanatchee | 1940 | oil on canvas |
West Virginia[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Elkins | Forest Service | Stevan Dohanos | 1939 | tempura | ||
Elkins | Mining Village | Stevan Dohanos | 1939 | tempura | ||
Fayetteville | The Moners | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Holidays Cove | Captain Bilderbrook's and John Schoolcraft's Expedition from Holidays Cove to Fort Wheeling in 1777 |
1940 | ||||
Lewisburg | Old Time Camp Meeting | Robert Franklin Gates | 1940 | tempura | ||
Mannington | Landscape at Frogtown | Richard Zoellner | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Marlinton | Mill Point | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Marlinton | Past Visions the Future | Edwin Dorsey Doniphan | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Hope | Mining | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
St. Marys | St. Mary's and the Industries of the Region | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Salem | Visions of the Development of Salem | 1942 | oil on canvas |
Wisconsin[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Berlin | Gathering Cranberries | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Black River Falls | Lumbering-Black River Mill | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Chilton | Threshing Barley | Charles W. Thwaites | 1940 | tempera | ||
Columbus | One Hundredth Anniversary | Charles W. Thwaites | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
De Pere | The Red Pieta | Lester W. Bentley | 1942 | tempera | ||
De Pere | Nicholas Perrot | Lester W. Bentley | 1942 | tempera | ||
De Pere | Give Us This Day | Lester W. Bentley | 1942 | tempera | ||
Edgerton | Tobacco Harvest | 1941 | oil on canvas | |||
Elkhorn | Pioneer Postman | 1938 | oil on canvas | 3 | ||
Hartford | Autumn Wisconsin Landscape | Ethel Spears | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Hayward | The Land of Woods and Lakes | 1942 | oil on canvas | |||
Hudson | Unloading a River Barge | 1943 | tempera On display at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend |
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Janesville | Wild Ducks | Boris Gilbertson | 1940 | aluminum, four panels | ||
Kaukauna | A. Grignon Trading with the Indians | Vladimir Rousseff | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Kewaunee | Winter Sports | Paul Faulkner | 1940 | fresco | ||
Ladysmith | Development of the Land | Elsa Jemne | 1938 | tempera Mural has been painted over |
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Lake Geneva | Winter Landscape | Elsa Jemne | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Lancaster | Farm Yard | Tom Rost | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Mayville | Wisconsin Rural Scene | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Neillsville | The Choosing of the County Seat | 1940 | tempera | |||
Oconomowoc | Rabbit Hunters | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Oconomowoc | Winter Sports | Edward Morton | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Park Falls | Lumberjack Fight on the Flambeau River | James Watrous | 1938 | tempera | ||
Plymouth | Making Cheese | Charles W. Thwaites | 1942 | tempera | ||
Prairie du Chien | Discovery of Northern Waters of the Mississippi | 1938 | plaster relief | |||
Reedsburg | Dairy Farming | 1940 | oil on canvas | |||
Rice Lake | Rural Delivery | 1938 | oil on canvas | |||
Richland Center | Decorative Interpretation of Unification of America through the Post | Richard Brooks | 1937 | Oil on canvas. U.S. Post Office (213 N. Central Ave.) has a Works Progress Administration-funded mural titled "The Post Unites America" painted in 1937 by artist Richard Brooks. Contributing building in Court Street Commercial Historic District.[133] | 1989 | |
Shawano | The First Settlers | 1939 | oil on canvas | |||
Sheboygan | Agriculture | 1939 | ||||
Sheboygan | Indian Life | Schomer Lichtner | 1939 | |||
Sheboygan | The Lake | Schomer Lichtner | 1939 | |||
Sheboygan | The Pioneer | Schomer Lichtner | 1939 | |||
Sheboygan | Present City | Schomer Lichtner | 1939 | |||
Stoughton | Air Mail Service | Edmund Lewandowski | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Sturgeon Bay | Fruits of Sturgeon Bay | Santos Zingale | 1940 | egg tempera | ||
Viroqua | War Party | Forrest Flower | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Waupaca | Wisconsin Countryside | Raymond Redell | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Wausau | Lumbering | 1940 | tempera | |||
Wausau | Rural Mail | Gerrit Sinclair | 1940 | tempera | ||
West Bend | The Rural Mail Carrier | Peter Rotier | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
West Allis | Wisconsin Wild Flowers – Spring | Frances Foy | 1943 | |||
West Allis | Wisconsin Wild Flowers – Autumn | Frances Foy | 1943 |
Wyoming[]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Casper | The Fertile Land Remembers | Louise Emerson Ronnebeck | 1938 | oil on canvas Originally located in the Worland Post Office.[135] |
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Greybull | Chuckwagon Serenade | 1940 | tempera | |||
Kemmerer | Cretaceous Landscape | Eugene Kingman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Kemmerer | Excavation | Eugene Kingman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Kemmerer | Tertiary Aquatic Life | Eugene Kingman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Powell | Powell's Agriculture Resulting for the Shoshone Irrigation Project | Verona Burkhard | 1938 | oil on canvas[136] | ||
Riverton | untitled farm scene | George Vander Sluis | 1942 | oil on canvas |
See also[]
- Section of Painting and Sculpture
- Treasury Relief Art Project
- United States post office murals
- List of post offices in the United States
References[]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c Raynor, Patricia (October–December 1997). "Articles from EnRoute: Off The Wall: New Deal Post Office Murals". Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Off The Wall. 6 (4). Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Historian (September 2015). "New Deal Art in Post Offices" (PDF). United States Postal Service. Retrieved 2016-04-24.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c University of Central Arkansas. "Arkansas Post Office Murals".
- ^ Jump up to: a b David Lembeck. "Rediscovering the People's Art: New Deal Murals in Pennsylvania’s Post Offices". Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d O'Connor, Francis V. (Autumn 1969). "The New Deal Art Projects in New York". The American Art Journal. Kennedy Galleries, Inc. 1 (2): 58–79. doi:10.2307/1593876. JSTOR 1593876.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Justin Hamel (21 August 2020). "Searching for America's 1930s post office murals - a photo essay". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
- ^ "Alaska New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Federal Building, Anchorage, AK". General Services Administration. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ "Federal Building (former) Mural – Anchorage AK". The Living New Deal. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ Peter Berningham. The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1980.
- ^ "Arizona New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Google Fusion Tables". Retrieved 7 January 2015.
- ^ "California New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Los Angeles Post Office Terminal Annex Murals – Los Angeles CA". The Living New Deal. Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Colorado" (PDF).
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984.
- ^ "Colorado New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Connecticut New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Reilly, Genevieve (8 March 2013). "Brush with history: Postal mural delivered to town offices". fairfieldcitizenonline.com. Fairfield Citizen. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ "Delaware New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
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- ^ http://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/Documents/Penn/66000865_PennsylvaniaAveNHD.pdf
- ^ "Endangered Murals Registry". Temple University. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ^ "Florida WPA Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
- ^ Gwen Faulkner; Barbara E. Mattick (March 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Old Perry Post Office / Perry Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved November 13, 2017. With 14 photos, with the last being a photo of the mural.
- ^ "Georgia New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Adel GA New Deal Art". WPAMurals.com. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ Gretchen A. Brock; Gail Hughes (November 19, 2008). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: United States Post Office-Adel, Georgia". National Park Service. Retrieved May 15, 2019. With accompanying 34 photos (the last two showing mural)
- ^ "Augusta, GA New Deal Art". WPAMurals.com. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ "Blakely, GA New Deal Art". WPAMurals.com. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
- ^ Kenneth H. Thomas, Jr.; John A. Kissane (October 17, 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Louisville Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved November 7, 2019. Includes map. With accompanying 19 photos from 1992.
- ^ Fogel, Jared A.; Stevens, Robert L. (Fall 2001). "The Canvas Mirror: Painting as Politics in the New Deal". OAH Magazine of History. Oxford, England: Organization of American Historians by Oxford University Press. 16 (1): 19–20. doi:10.1093/maghis/16.1.17. ISSN 0882-228X. JSTOR 25163482.
- ^ "Hawaii New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Honolulu, HI New Deal Art". WPMurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Geographical Dictionary of Murals and Sculptures commissioned by Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency" in American Art Annual. Washington, DC: American Federation of Arts, 1941, pp. 623–658.
- ^ "Idaho New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Blackfoot Main Post Office". National Park Service. March 16, 1989. Retrieved January 11, 2017. with four photos
- ^ Discovery, from Post Mark Collectors Club.
- ^ Mine Disaster, from Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ H.J. "Jim" Kolva; Steve Franks (August 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: US Post Office-Preston Main / Preston Main Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved October 23, 2017. With four photos.
- ^ Thompson, Mary Emma (2005). A Guide to Depression Era Art in Illinois Post Offices (revised ed.). Westfield, IL: Author. ISBN 9780977028603.
- ^ George H. Mavicliano and Richard A. Lawson, The Federal Art Project in Illinois: 1935–1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
- ^ "Illinois New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Depression Era Art Project in Illinois". lib.niu.edu. Illinois Periodicals Online. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ John C. Carlisle. A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1995.
- ^ "Indiana New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Iowa New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Post Office Murals - Dubuque IA".
- ^ "Kansas New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Kansas Post Offices with Artwork, 1936--1942 MPS
- ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (February 11, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Anthony United States Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 29, 2017. With three photos from 1987.
- ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (December 16, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Caldwell United States Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 29, 2017. With three photos from 1987.
- ^ Martha Hagedorn Krass (February 10, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fredonia United States Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 26, 2017. With four photos from 1987.
- ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (February 28, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Neodesha United States Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 26, 2017. With four photos from 1987.
- ^ Martha Hagedorn-Krass (March 1, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Oswego United States Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 19, 2017. With four photos from 1987.
- ^ "Kentucky New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Post Office Mural - Hickman KY".
- ^ "Louisiana New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Ferriday Commercial Historic Distr" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. 1995. Retrieved July 31, 2017. with photos and maps
- ^ "Maine New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. p. 282. ISBN 0816611165.
- ^ "Maryland New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Massachusetts New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
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- ^ Rankin, T.J.; Remilong, Stacey, Photo (2014). "Grayling Post Office houses a unique piece of American art history". Crawford County Avalanche. Grayling Michigan Visitors' Bureau. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Iron River". wpamurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Minnesota New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Mississippi New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ James Martin, Jennifer Dobson, and Shannon Criss (June 4, 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Downtown Booneville Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved April 21, 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) With 22 photos from 1996-98 (post office exterior shown in photo #9).
- ^ Resnik, Judith; Curtis, Dennis Edward (2011). Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-states and Democratic Courtrooms. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 113–115. ISBN 978-0-300-11096-8.
- ^ "Missouri New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Montana New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Elizabeth Mentzer (Autumn 2003). "Made in Montana Montana's Post Office Murals" (PDF). Montana The Magazine of Western History. 53 (3).
- ^ H.J. "Jim" Kolva (September 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Glasgow Post Office and Courthouse / Glasgow Main Post Office". National Park Service. Retrieved December 30, 2016. with three photos from 1984
- ^ "Nebraska New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Carol Ahlgren (August 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Auburn United States Post Office / NHQ1-056". National Park Service. Retrieved July 20, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1989
- ^ Carol Ahlgren (August 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Geneva United States Post Office / FM05-126". National Park Service. Retrieved October 9, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1989 (one of exterior, two of mural)
- ^ Carol Ahlgren (August 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Hebron United States Post Office / TY10-008". National Park Service. Retrieved May 13, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1989 (two with mural)
- ^ Carol Ahlgren (August 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Minden United States Post Office / KN04-007". National Park Service. Retrieved May 6, 2019. With photos of mural and building from 1983
- ^ "Nevada New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "New Hampshire New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "New Jersey New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "New Mexico New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Kathryn A. Flynn and Andrew L. Connors. Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 1995, pp. 101–102.
- ^ "New York New Deal Art". wpamurals.com. WPAmurals. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h American Art Annual, Geographical Dictionary Of Murals and Sculptures commissioned by Section of Fine Arts, Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency. The American Federation of Arts, 1941 pp 623 – 658
- ^ "North Carolina New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "North Dakota New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Ohio New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. p. 293. ISBN 0816611165.
- ^ "Oklahoma New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Alyson Greiner (March 4, 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: United States Post Office Coalgate" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires
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(help) "Accompanying 19 photos, from 2007" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places Inventory. - ^ Lester, Patrick D., The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters, SIR Publications, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 9780806199369, page 48, First edition, 1995
- ^ Alyson Greiner (July 19, 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: United States Post Office Watonga". National Park Service. Retrieved April 27, 2017. With 14 photos, including multiple views of the mural.
- ^ "Oregon New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Pennsylvania New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "New Deal Art Registry". Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ "Harry Sternberg: Coal and Steel : The Family – Industry and Agriculture". Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ Kirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, (Hudson Hills Press, 2013), p. 96.
- ^ "Puerto Rico New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Rhode Island New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "South Carolina New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. pp. 300 to 364. ISBN 9780816611171.
- ^ "South Dakota New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Art – 35/52 – Living New Deal". Retrieved 6 January 2015.
- ^ Hull, Howard, Tennessee Post Office Murals, The Overmountain Press, Jiohnson City Tennessee, 1996
- ^ "Tennessee New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Hull, Howard, Tennessee P. O. Murals:. The Overmountain Press, Johnson City, TN (1996), pp. 26–27.
- ^ "Texas New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Texas Post Office Murals". texasescapes.com. TexasEscapes.com. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
- ^ "Texas Post office Murals". texasescapes.com. Texas Escapes. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
- ^ "Indians Moving, Caldwell Texas Post Office Mural by Suzanne Scheuer, 1939". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Artworks Search Results / American Art". Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Early Texans (mural study, Conroe, Texas Post Office) by Nicholas Lyon / American Art". Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1984 p 229
- ^ "Utah New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "South Dakota New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Virginia New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Washington New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "West Virginia New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "Wisconsin New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ Joan Rausch; Jovce McKay (August 29, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Court Street Commercial Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved March 7, 2018. With 40 photos (the last two show the post office and the mural).
- ^ "Wyoming New Deal Art". WPAmurals.com. Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- ^ "The Fertile Land Remembers | National Postal Museum".
- ^ Adams, Katherine H.; Keene, Michael L. (2015). Women, Art and the New Deal. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4766-6297-8.
Further reading[]
- Marling, Karal A. Wall-to-wall America: A Cultural History of Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
- Mecklenburg, Virginia M. The Public As Patron: A History of the Treasury Department Mural Program. College Park: University of Maryland, Dept. of Art, 1979.
- Puschendorf, L. R. Nebraska's Post Office Murals: Born of the Depression, Fostered by the New Deal. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska State Historical Society, 2012.
- Stevens, Robert L. and Jared A. Fogel. "Conflict and Consensus: New Deal Mural Post Office Art", National Social Science Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 160–165.
External links[]
- WPAMurals.com
- New Deal Art Registry
- List of books on post office murals at the National New Deal Preservation Association
- Murals in the United States
- Public Works of Art Project
- Section of Painting and Sculpture
- Section of Painting and Sculpture artists
- Treasury Relief Art Project
- Treasury Relief Art Project artists