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File:McLeary War Department Building mural.jpg

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Description

Mural in the Harry S. Truman Federal Building which is the headquarters of the Department of State

  • Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.
  • Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer.
  • The mural, titled Defense of Human Freedoms, was painted by Kindred McLeary. The building was designed by architects, Gilbert Stanley Underwood and William Dewey Foster of Harley, Probst Associates. Its first building phase was completed in 1941, and its addition was completed later in 1960.
  • Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
  • Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:143).
  • Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID highsm.42355.
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Author
Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
Alternative names

Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
Work location
United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5044454

Summary

Public domain This work is from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
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Captions

Kindred McLeary's 1942 fresco "The Defense of Human Freedoms", commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture for the War Department Building

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inception

23 February 2016

exposure time

3.2 second

focal length

15 millimetre

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