This is a list of United States post office murals, 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 of the United States post office murals 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 (1934–1943) 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 1,371 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 (1935–1938), 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 (1933–1934). 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 (1935–1943) 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 "New Deal artwork" is a more accurate term to describe the works of art created under the federal art programs of that period.[7]
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.[8]
Alabama
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Atmore | The Letter Box | Anne Goldthwaite | 1938 | |||
Brewton | Logging | John Von Wicht | 1939 | oil on canvas Missing |
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Enterprise | Saturday in Enterprise | Paul Arlt | 1941 | Relocated to the Enterprise Public Library | ||
Eutaw | The Countryside | Robert Gwathmey | 1941 | |||
Fairfield | Spirit of Steel | Frank Hartley Anderson | 1938 | [11] | ||
Fort Payne | Harvest at Fort Payne | Harwood Steiger | 1938 | Relocated in 2001 to Hunt Hall, part of the Hosiery Museum | ||
Hartselle | Cotton Scene | Ferol Sibley Warthen | 1941 | Relocated to the Hartselle Chamber of Commerce office in the historic train depot | ||
Haleyville | Reforestation | Hollis Holbrook | 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 | William S. McCall | 1938 | Included in University of Montevallo Historic District | 1990 CP | |
Monroeville | Harvesting | Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather | 1939 | |||
Oneonta | Local Agriculture-A.A.A. 1939 | Aldis B. Browne | 1939 | |||
Ozark | Early Industry of Dale County | John Kelly Fitzpatrick | 1938 | [12] | ||
Phenix City | Cotton | John Kelly Fitzpatrick | 1939 | missing | ||
Russellville | Shipment of the First Iron Produced in Russellville | Conrad A. Albrizio | 1938 | |||
Tuskegee | The Road to Tuskegee | Anne Goldthwaite | 1937 | |||
Tuscumbia | Chief Tuscumbia Greets the Dickson Family | Jack McMillen | 1939 |
Alaska
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anchorage Post Office and Court House |
Alaskan Landscape | Arthur T. Kerrick | 1946 | Courtroom wall behind the judge's bench Commissioned in 1941, installed in the 1950s[14][15][16] |
1978 78000516 | |
Wrangell | Old Town in Alaska | Austin Mecklem and Marianne Appel | 1943 |
Arizona
editLocation | 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[19] | ||
United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona |
Spanish Explorers and American Indians | Oscar Berninghaus | 1939 | 83002993 | ||
United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona |
Progress of the Pioneer, Crossing the Desert | LaVerne Nelson Black | 1937 | 83002993 | ||
United States Post Office, Phoenix, Arizona |
Progress of the Pioneer, the Arrival of the U.S. Mail Coach | LaVerne Nelson Black | 1937 | 83002993 | ||
Safford | History of the Gila Valley | Seymour Fogel | 1942 | 6 murals |
Arkansas
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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 | Abraham Tobias | 1942 | never installed, current location unknown | ||
Clarksville | How Happy was the Occasion | Mary M. Purser | 1941 | |||
Dardanelle Agriculture and Post Office, in Dardanelle |
Cotton Growing, Manufacture, and Export | Ludwig Mactarian | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
DeQueen | Wildlife Conservation in Arkansas | Henry Simon | 1942 | |||
DeWitt Post Office, in De Witt | Portrait of Contemporary De Witt | William Thaher | 1941 | |||
Lake Village Post Office, Lake Village | Lake Country Wild Life | Avery F. Johnson | 1941 | 1998 | ||
Magnolia | Threshing | Joe Jones | 1938 | |||
Morrilton Post Office, in Morrilton | Men at Rest | Richard Sargent | 1939 | on display at the Conway County Courthouse | 1998 | |
Nashville Post Office, Nashville | Peach Growing | John Tazewell Robertson | 1939 | 1998 | ||
Osceola | Early Settlers of Osceola, Arkansas | Orville A. Carroll | 1939 | destroyed by fire in 1966 | ||
Paris Post Office, in Paris | Rural Arkansas | Joseph Vorst | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1998 | |
Piggott Post Office, in Piggott | Air Mail | Daniel Rhodes | 1941 | Mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set | ||
Pocahontas Post Office, Pocahontas | Early Days and the First Post Office in Pocahontas | H. Louis Freund | 1939 | restored and on display at Arkansas State University | 2002 | |
Siloam Springs | Lumbering in Arkansas | Bertrand R. Adams | 1940 | |||
Springdale | Local Industries | Natalie Smith Henry | 1940 | on display at Shiloh Museum of Ozark History | ||
Van Buren Post Office, 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Address | County | Coordinates | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Alhambra | El Gringo, El Indio, El Paysan | Gordon K. Grant | 1938 | Los Angeles | painted over[23] | ||||
Berkeley – United States Post Office (Berkeley, California) | Incidents in California History | Suzanne Scheuer | 1937 | 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 | Alameda | 37°52′09″N 122°16′12″W / 37.8691°N 122.2699°W | tempera and oil on canvas | 1981 | |
Beverly Hills – Beverly Hills Main Post Office | Postrider, Airmail, et al. | Charles Kassler | 1936 | 469 N. Crescent Dr. Beverly Hills, CA 90210 | Los Angeles | 34°04′21″N 118°24′08″W / 34.0726°N 118.4023°W | fresco | 1985 | |
Burbank | People of Burbank | Barse Miller | 1940 | 135 E. Olive Ave., Burbank, CA 91502 | Los Angeles | 1985 | |||
Calexico | Lettuce Workers | George Samerjan | 1942 | 237 Rockwood Ave., Calexico, CA 92231 | Imperial | 32°40′03″N 115°29′47″W / 32.6676°N 115.4963°W | tempera on gesso; now privately owned[24] | ||
Canoga Park | Palomino Ponies | Maynard Dixon | 1942 | 21801 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA 91303 | Los Angeles | 34°12′04″N 118°36′11″W / 34.2010°N 118.6031°W | |||
Claremont | Pomona Valley Life, 1930 | Milford Zornes | 1937 | 140 Harvard Ave. N, Claremont, CA 91711 | Los Angeles | 34°05′44″N 117°42′59″W / 34.0954674°N 117.7163°W | |||
Claremont | California Landscape | Milford Zornes | 1937 | 140 Harvard Ave. N, Claremont, CA 91711 | Los Angeles | 34°05′44″N 117°42′59″W / 34.0954674°N 117.7163°W | oil on canvas | ||
Compton | Early California | James Redmond | 1936 | 101 S. Willowbrook Ave., Compton, CA 90220 | Los Angeles | 33°53′44″N 118°13′27″W / 33.8955°N 118.2243°W | |||
Culver City | Studio Lot | George Samerjan | 1942 | 9942 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232 | Los Angeles | 34°01′14″N 118°23′49″W / 34.0206°N 118.3970°W | tempera | ||
Eureka - United States Post Office and Courthouse | Mining and Forestry | Tom Laman | 1936 | Humboldt | tempera on canvas restored and relocated to the United States federal courthouse in McKinleyville[25] |
1983 | |||
Eureka - United States Post Office and Courthouse | Water and Land | Tom Laman | 1936 | Humboldt | tempera on canvas restored and relocated to the United States federal courthouse in McKinleyville |
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Fullerton | Orange Pickers | Paul Julian | 1942 | 202 E Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton, CA 92836 | Orange | 33°52′13″N 117°55′18″W / 33.8704°N 117.9218°W | oil on canvas | ||
Hayward | Rural Landscape | Tom E. Lewis | 1938 | 822 C St., Hayward, CA 94541 | Alameda | 37°40′15″N 122°05′01″E / 37.6707°N 122.0837°E | |||
Huntington Park | History of California | Norman S. Chamberlain | 1937 | 6606 Seville Ave., Huntington Park, CA 90255 | Los Angeles | 33°58′45″N 118°13′21″W / 33.9791°N 118.2225°W | oil on canvas seven panels |
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La Jolla | Scenic View of the Village | Belle Baranceanu | 1936 | 1140 Wall St., La Jolla, CA 92037 | San Diego | 32°50′50″N 117°16′21″W / 32.8471°N 117.2725°W | oil on canvas | ||
Lancaster | Hauling Water Pipe through Antelope Valley | Jose Moya del Pino | 1941 | 567 W. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster, CA 93534 | Los Angeles | 34°41′54″N 118°08′21″W / 34.6982°N 118.1392°W | oil on canvas | ||
Los Angeles - U.S. Post Office – Los Angeles Terminal Annex, | Cultural Contributions of North, South and Central America | Boris Deutsch | 1944 | 900 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Los Angeles | 34°03′30″N 118°14′13″W / 34.0584°N 118.237°W | 11 lunettes fresco[26] |
1985 | |
Los Angeles - Spring Street Courthouse | Los Angeles — Prehistoric and Spanish Colonial | Edward Biberman | 1940 | 312 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Los Angeles | 34°03′19″N 118°14′32″W / 34.0553°N 118.2423°W | 2006 | ||
Los Angeles - Spring Street Courthouse | Creative Man | Edward Biberman | 1941 | 312 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Los Angeles | 34°03′19″N 118°14′32″W / 34.0553°N 118.2423°W | in storage[27] | ||
Los Angeles - Spring Street Courthouse | Life on the Old Spanish and American Ranchos | Lucien Labaudt | 1938 | 312 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012 | Los Angeles | 34°03′19″N 118°14′32″W / 34.0553°N 118.2423°W | 2006 | ||
Los Banos | Early Spanish Caballeros | Lew E. Davis | 1940 | Merced | on display at Milliken Museum | ||||
Manteca | Rural Life | Conrad Buff | 1940 | San Joaquin | Missing or destroyed[28] | ||||
Martinez | The Road to Eldorado | Edith Hamlin Maynard Dixon |
1939 | 815 Court St., Martinez, CA 94553 | Contra Costa | 38°01′04″N 122°08′01″W / 38.0178°N 122.1337°W | oil on canvas | ||
Maywood | Industry | George Samerjan | 1939 | Los Angeles | Missing or destroyed[29] | ||||
Merced - United States Post Office (Merced, California) | Jedediah Smith Crossing the Merced River | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1937 | Merced | tempera | 1983 | |||
Merced - United States Post Office | Vacheros | Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli | 1937 | Merced | tempera | 1983 | |||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Irrigation | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Agricultural Products of the Valley | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Harvesting of Grapes | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Packing Cheese | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Grain Harvesting | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Meatpacking | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Sorting Grapes | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Modesto - El Viejo Post Office | Tractor and Plow | Ray Boynton | 1936 | Stanislaus | |||||
Monrovia | Grizzly Bear and Cubs | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1940 | Los Angeles | restored and on display at Monrovia Public Library | ||||
Montebello | Fiesta Procession in Old California | Clay Spohn | 1938 | Los Angeles | tempera, destroyed | ||||
Monterey | Monterey Bay | Henrietta Shore | 1937 | Monterey | |||||
Oceanside | Air Mail | Elise Seeds | 1937 | 517 Seagaze Dr. Oceanside, CA 92054 | San Diego | oil on canvas | |||
Ontario | The Dream | Nellie G. Best | 1942 | 123 W. Holt Blvd. Ontario, CA 91761[30] | San Bernardino | oil on canvas | |||
Ontario | The Reality | Nellie G. Best | 1942 | 123 W. Holt Blvd. Ontario, CA 91761 | San Bernardino | oil on canvas | |||
Oxnard | Oxnard Panorama | Daniel M. Mendelowitz | 1941 | 350 S. A St., Oxnard, CA 93030 | Ventura | 34°11′57″N 119°10′43″W / 34.1993°N 119.1785°W | |||
Pacific Grove | Lovers Point | Victor Arnautoff | 1940 | Monterey | oil on canvas | ||||
Placerville | Forest Genetics | Tom E. Lewis | 1941 | El Dorado | |||||
Redondo Beach | Excursion Train and Picknickers in the Nineties | Paul Sample | 1937 | Los Angeles | oil on canvas | ||||
Redondo Beach | Fishing from Redondo Rock | Paul Sample | 1937 | Los Angeles | oil on canvas | ||||
Redondo Beach | Sheep Farming and Ocean near Redondo | Paul Sample | 1937 | Los Angeles | oil on canvas | ||||
Redwood City | Flower Farming and Vegetable Raising | Jose Moya del Pino | 1937 | 855 Jefferson Ave., Redwood City, CA 94063 | San Mateo | 37°29′08″N 122°13′41″W / 37.4855°N 122.2280°W | oil on canvas | ||
Reedley | Grape Pickers | Boris Deutsch | 1941 | 1509 11th St., Reedley, CA 93654 | Fresno | 36°35′51″N 119°26′57″W / 36.5976°N 119.4491°W | oil on canvas | ||
Richmond | Richmond – Industrial City | Victor Arnautoff | 1941 | Contra Costa | oil on canvas Missing 1976–2014 Restored in 2020 and installed at the Richmond Museum of History and Culture[31][32][33] |
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Saint Helena | Grape Pickers | Lew Keller | 1942 | 1461 Main St., St Helena, CA 94574 | Napa | oil on canvas | |||
San Francisco | History of San Francisco | Anton Refregier | 1946–48 | San Francisco | Tempera on gesso | 1979 | |||
San Gabriel | San Gabriel County | Ray Strong | 1938 | Los Angeles | oil on canvas Located in the office of the postmaster |
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San Mateo | Life in Early California | Tom Laman | 1935 | 210 S. Ellsworth Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401 | San Mateo | egg tempera on plasterboard. Set of 3 murals. | 1988 | ||
San Pedro - United States Post Office | Mail Transportation | Fletcher Martin | 1938 | 839 S. Beacon St, San Pedro, CA 90731 | Los Angeles | 33°44′11″N 118°16′49″W / 33.7365°N 118.2804°W | oil on canvas | 1985 | |
San Rafael | San Rafael Creek – 1851 | Oscar Galgiani | 1937 | Marin | oil on paperboard | ||||
Santa Cruz | Cabbage Culture | Henrietta Shore | 1936 | Santa Cruz | Oil on canvas | 1985 | |||
Santa Cruz | Limestone Quarries | Henrietta Shore | 1936 | Santa Cruz | Oil on canvas | ||||
Santa Cruz | Artichoke Raising | Henrietta Shore | 1936 | Santa Cruz | Oil on canvas | ||||
Santa Cruz | Fishing Industry | Henrietta Shore | 1936 | Santa Cruz | Oil on canvas | ||||
Sebastopol | Agriculture | Malette Dean | 1937 | 290 S. Main St., Sebastopol, CA 95472 | Sonoma | 38°24′01″N 122°49′24″W / 38.4003°N 122.8232°W | oil on canvas | ||
Selma | Land of Irrigation | Norman S. Chamberlain | 1938 | 2058 High St., Selma, CA 93662 | Fresno | oil on canvas | |||
South Pasadena | The Stage Coach | John Law Walker | 1937 | 1001 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena, CA 91030 | Los Angeles | 34°06′52″N 118°09′11″W / 34.1145°N 118.1531°W | oil on canvas | ||
South San Francisco | South San Francisco, Past and Present | Victor Arnautoff | 1941 | 322 Linden Ave, South San Francisco, CA 94080 | San Mateo | oil on canvas | |||
Stockton | Modern Transportation of the Mails | Frank Bergman | 1936 | San Joaquin | oil on canvas | ||||
Stockton | The U.S. Mail Stage Coach | Jose Moya del Pino | 1936 | San Joaquin | oil on canvas | ||||
Susanville | Deer | Helen Katharine Forbes | 1939 | Lassen | egg tempera | ||||
Tracy | Overland Pioneers | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | San Joaquin | oil on canvas currently missing |
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Tracy | Spaniards | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | San Joaquin | oil on canvas | ||||
Tracy | Days of First Railroad | Edith Hamlin | 1938 | San Joaquin | oil on canvas | ||||
Turlock | Arrival of the Stage | James Albert Holden | 1938 | Stanislaus | oil on canvas | ||||
Ukiah | Resources of the Soil | Ben Cunningham | 1938 | Mendocino | egg tempera; moved to Ukiah Civic Center/Ukiah City Hall[34] | ||||
Vacaville | Fruit Season, Vacaville | Emrich Nicholson | 1939 | Solano | oil on canvas, now privately owned[35] |
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Venice | The Story of Venice | Edward Biberman | 1941 | Los Angeles | oil-wax emulsion on canvas; now privately owned by Joel Silver[36] | ||||
Ventura | Agriculture and Industries of Ventura | Gordon K. Grant | 1938 | 675 E. Santa Clara St., Ventura, CA 93001 | Ventura | 34°16′48″N 119°17′25″W / 34.280°N 119.2904°W | oil on canvas | ||
Whittier | Boy with Sheep | Tom Laman | 1938 | 6709 Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90601 | Los Angeles | 33°58′50″N 118°02′06″W / 33.9806°N 118.0350°W | tempera painted over |
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Woodland | Farm Life | George Harris | 1937 | 720 Court St., Woodland, CA 95695 | Yolo | ||||
Woodland | The Trek of Father Crespi, 1777 | Katherine S. Works | 1938 | Yolo | destroyed |
Colorado
edit[35][37] A review of murals in Colorado's post offices found there were no frescos, but rather all had been painted on canvas.[38]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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.[38]: 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; mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set | 1986 | |
Glenwood Springs, Colorado | Decorative Map | Jenne Magafan and Edward Chavez | 1937 | |||
Golden | Building the New Road | Kenneth Evett | 1941 | tempera on fiberboard | ||
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 | John Hathaway Fraser | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition on display at Littleton City Hall |
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Loveland | Industries around Loveland | James Russell Sherman | 1938 | |||
U.S. Post Office-Manitou Springs Main in Manitou Springs | Hunters, Red and White | Archie Musick | 1942 | 1986 | ||
Montrose | [38]: 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Bridgeport | Bridgeport Manufacturing | Arthur Covey | 1936 | 3 panels | 1986 | |
Bridgeport | Stagecoach and Modern Transportation | Robert Lynn Lambdin | 1936 | 3 panels | ||
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 | Alton Tobey | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
Enfield | Thompsonville, Connecticut | Saul Berman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Fairfield | Tempura Mutantur et Nos Mutanmur in Illis or Times Change and We Change With Them | Alice Flint | 1938 | restored in 2013 and moved to Sullivan-Independence Hall[40] | ||
Greenwich | Old Days in Greenwich | Victoria Hutson Huntley | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1986 | |
Lakeville | Ethan Allen in Forge Making Cannon Balls | George R. Cox | 1942 | |||
Madison | Gathering Seaweed from the Sound | William Abbott Cheever | 1940 | |||
New Haven | Pursuit of Regicides | Karl Anderson | 1939 | |||
New London | Early Morning Cutting-In Aloft | Tom La Farge | 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 | Arnold Branch | 1938 | |||
Norwich | Taking Up Arms – 1776 | George Kanelous | 1940 | 1986 | ||
Portland | Shade Grown Tobacco | Austin Mecklem | 1942 | |||
Shelton | River Landscape | Frede Vidar | 1940 | |||
Southington | Romance of Southington | Ann Hunt Spencer | 1942 | |||
Thomaston | Early Clockmaking | Suzanne McCullough Lucerne McCullough |
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 | Elizabeth Shannon Phillips | 1938 | |||
Winsted | Lincoln's Arbiter Settles the Winsted Post Office Controversy | Amy Jones | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Delaware
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Dover | Harvest, Spring and Summer | William D. White | 1937 | Presently in Wesley Methodist Church, Lockermann Station Educational Building. Funded by TRAP, this mural includes several panels | ||
Harrington | Men Hoeing | Eve Salisbury | 1941 | wax tempera | ||
New Castle | William Penn Welcomed at New Castle | J. Scott Williams | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Rehoboth Beach | Frontier Mail | Karl Knaths | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Selbyville | Chicken Farm | William H. Calfee | 1942 | oil and tempera | ||
Wilmington | Chemistry and Industry | Herman Zimmerman | 1938 | oil on canvas |
District of Columbia
editLocation | 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[43] | ||
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[44] | ||
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 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | French explorers and Indians | Karl Free | 1939 | |||
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building | Arrival of mail in New Amsterdam | Karl Free | 1939 |
Florida
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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De Funiak Springs | Scene of Town | Thomas I. Laughlin | 1942 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
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 | Joseph D. Meyers | 1947 | |||
Madison | Long Staple Cotton | George Snow Hill | 1937 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
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 Three panels: Discovery De Soto and the Indians Conference |
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Milton | Loading Pulpwood | George Snow Hill | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Palm Beach | Landscape | Charles Rosen | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Palm Beach | Seminole Indians | Charles Rosen | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1983 | |
Perry | Cypress Logging | George Snow Hill | 1938 | Moved in 1987 from the Old Perry Post Office to a new post office building; a photographic reproduction was to be posted in the original location[46] | ||
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 | Elizabeth Terrell | 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Adel | Plantation Scene | Alice Flint | 1941 | oil on canvas[48] Relocated from the original post office to the current building[49] |
2009 | |
Augusta | The British Come to See Augusta | William Dean Fausett | 1939 | tempera on gesso in storage at Augusta Museum of Art[50] |
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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 | David Putnam Brinley | 1938 | oil on canvas[51] | ||
Cairo | Products of Grady County | Paul L. Gill | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at Grady County Museum. The U.S. Post Office is included in the NRHP-listed Cairo Commercial Historic District |
1994 | |
Camilla | Theme of the South | Laura G. Douglas | 1942 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
College Park | Arrival of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad | Jack McMillen | 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 | Elizabeth Terell | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
Cornelia | Northern Georgia | Charles Trumbo Henry | 1939 | tempera on paperboard | ||
Cuthbert | Last Indian Troubles in Randolph County – 1836 | Carlo Ciampaglia | 1939 | |||
Decatur | Dogwood and Azalea | Paul Rohland | 1938 | Relocated to the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta[52] | ||
Eastman | Georgia Lumberman Receiving Mail by Star Route Wagon | Arthur E. Schmalz | 1938 | |||
Greensboro | The Burning of Greensboro | Carson Davenport | 1939 | |||
Greensboro | Cotton Picking in Georgia | Carson Davenport | 1939 | |||
Hartwell | A Letter | Orlin E. Clayton | 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 |
David Hutchison | 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 | Plantation, Education, Transportation | Abraham Harrison | 1941 | By 1993 the mural had been removed to storage.[53] | ||
McDonough | Cotton Gin Mill | Louis Henry Jean Charlot | 1941 | |||
Pelham | Pelham Landscape | Georgina Klitgaard | 1941 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
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[54] | ||
Sylvester | Cantaloupe Industry | Chester J. Tingler | 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Idaho
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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.[58] Artist was an Oglala-Lakota American Indian. | 1989 | |
U.S. Post Office – Buhl Main, in Buhl | Snake River Ferry | Richard Guy Walton | 1941 | 1989 | ||
Burley | Pioneer on the Oregon Trail along the Snake River | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1938 | |||
U.S. Post Office – Kellogg Main, in Kellogg | Discovery[59] | Fletcher Martin | 1941 | Martin's original proposal, Mine Rescue (1939), was deemed too controversial. It is now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[60][12] | 1990 | |
Preston Main Post Office, in Preston | The Battle of Bear River | Edmund J. Fitzgerald | 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.[61] | 1989 | |
US Post Office-St. Anthony Main, in St. Anthony | The Fur Traders | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1939 |
Illinois
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Berwyn | The Picnic | Richard Haines | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Bushnell | Pioneer Home in Bushnell | Reva Jackman | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Cairo | Sandbagging the Bulkheads | Wendell Jones | 1944 | Completed, refused, returned to government custody Lost after being shown in international mural exhibition at the end of World War II[65] |
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Carmi | Service to the Farmer | Davenport Griffen | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Carthage | Pioneers Tilling Soil and Building Log Cabin | Karl Kelpe | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
Chicago Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. |
Advent of the Pioneers, 1851 | Frances Foy | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at Cardiss Collins Post Office. Moved to Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. |
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Chicago Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. |
The Great Indian Council – 1833 | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1934 | oil on canvas installed at the Chestnut St. Station moved to Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. |
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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 | Charles Turzak | 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 | Theodore Johnson | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Chillicothe | Railroading | Arthur Lidov | 1942 | tempera on board | ||
Clinton | Clinton in Winter | Aaron Bohrod | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Decatur | The 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 | James M. Newell | 1945 | 2 murals | ||
Downers Grove | Chicago, Railroad Center of the World | Elizabeth Tracy | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Dwight | Stage at Dawn | Carlos Lopez | 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 | William Schwartz | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Elmhurst | There Was a Vision | George Melville Smith | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Fairfield | Old Settlers | William Schwartz | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Flora | Good News and Bad | 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 | ||
Herrin | George Rogers Clark Conferring with Indians near Herrin, Illinois | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1940 | oil on canvas destroyed |
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Lemont | Canal Boats | Charles Turzak | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Lewistown | Lewistown Milestones | Ida Abelman | 1941 | tempera | ||
Madison | Assimilation and Immigration into Industrial Life of Madison | A. Raymond Katz | 1940 | oil and tempera on canvas | ||
Marseilles | Industrial Marseilles | Avery F. Johnson | 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 | Henry Bernstein | 1941 | tempera | ||
Naperville | George Martin's Home Overlooking Old Naper Hill | Rainey Bennett[66] | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Nashville | Barnyard | Zoltan Seeshy | 1942 | tempera on wallboard | ||
Normal | Development of the State Normal School | Albert Pels | 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 | Merlin F. Pollack | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Oglesby | The Illini and Potawatomies Struggle at Starved Rock | Fay E. Davis | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Oregon | Pioneer and Democracy | David Cheskin | 1940 | tempera | ||
Petersburg | Lincoln at New Salem, Illinois | John Winters | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Pittsfield | Riverboat and Bridge | William Schwartz (artist) | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Rushville | Hart Fellows – Builder of Rushville | Rainey Bennett[66] | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Salem | Lincoln as Postmaster in New Salem | Vladimir Rousseff | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Shelbyville | Shelby County Fair-1900 | Lucia Wiley | 1941 | fresco | ||
Staunton | Going to Work | Ralf Hendricksen | 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 | Raymond Breinin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Wood River | Stagecoach and Mail | Archibald Motley, Jr. | 1937 | oil on canvas |
Indiana
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Alexandria | The Sleighing Party | Roland Schweinsburg | 1938 | |||
Angola | Hoosier Farm | Charles Campbell | 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 | Henrik Martin Mayer | 1938 | |||
Batesville | Building the Industrial Foundation of Batesville | Orville Carroll | 1938 | |||
Boonville | Boonville Beginnings | Ida Abelman | 1941 | casein tempera on canvas | ||
Cambridge | Pride Of Cambridge City | Samuel F. Hershey | 1941 | |||
Crawfordsville | Indiana Agriculture | Frank Long | 1942 | |||
Crown Point | From Such Beginnings Sprang the County of Lake Indiana | George Melville Smith | 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 | Jean Swiggett | 1940 | |||
Garrett | Clearing the Right of Way | Joseph H. Cox | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Gas City | Gas City in Boom days | William A. Dolwick | 1939 | |||
Hobart | Early Hobart | William A. Dolwick | 1938 | |||
Indianapolis | Suburban Street | Alan Tompkins | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Jasper | Indiana Farming Scene in Late Autumn | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1939 | |||
Knightstown | The Evening Mail | Raymond L. Morris | 1938 | |||
Lafayette | Rural Delivery | Henrik Martin Mayer | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Lafayette | Sad News | Henrik Martin Mayer | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
LaGrange | The Corn School | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Liberty | Animal Fields | Avery F. Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Ligonier | Cutting Timber | Fay E. Davis | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Martinsville | The Arrival of the Mail | Alan Tompkins | 1937 | |||
Middlebury | Early Middlebury Mail | Raymond Redell | 1939 | |||
Monticello | Haymaking | Marguerite Zorach | 1942 | |||
Nappanee | Waiting for the Mail | Grant Christian | 1938 | |||
North Manchester | Indiana Farm – Sunday Afternoon | Alan Tompkins | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Paoli | Rural Mail Carriers | Tom Rost | 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 Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Terre Haute | Magna Carta – Through This Document Government Exists According to Law not Power |
Frederick Webb Ross | 1935 | on display at Indiana State University College of Business |
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Tipton | Indiana Farming | Donald Mattison | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Union City | Country Cousins | Donald Mattison | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Iowa
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Ames | The Evolution of Corn | Lowell Houser | 1938 | |||
Audubon | Audubon's Trip Down the Ohio and Mississippi – 1820 | Virginia Snedecker | 1942 | |||
Bloomfield | Autumn in Iowa | John Sharpe | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Clarion | Farm Scene | Paul Faulkner | 1943 | |||
Columbus Junction | Lovers Leap | Sante Graziani | 1942 | |||
Corning | Band Concert | Marion Gilmore | 1941 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
Corydon | Volunteer Fire Department | Marion Gilmore | 1942 | |||
Cresco | Iowa Farming | Richard Haines | 1937 | |||
DeWitt | Shucking Corn | John Bloom | 1938 | oil on canvas on display at DeWitt City Hall |
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Dubuque | Early Mississippi Steamboat | William E. L. Bunn | 1936 | oil on canvas[70] | 1985 CP | |
Dubuque | Early Settlers of Dubuque | Bertrand R. Adams | 1937 | |||
Emmetsburg | Conservation of Wildlife | Lee Allen | 1940 | |||
Forest City | Evening on the Farm | Orr C. Fisher | 1942 | |||
Hamburg | Peony Festival at Hamburg | William E. L. Bunn | 1941 | Destroyed | ||
Harlan | The Farmer Feeding Industry | Richard Gates | 1937 | |||
Hawarden | Hunters | John Sharp | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Ida Grove | Preparations for the First County Fair in Ida Grove – 1872 | Andrene Kauffman | 1940 | |||
Independence | Postman in Storm | Robert Tabor | 1939 | |||
Jefferson | The New Calf | Tom Savage | 1938 | |||
Knoxville | Pioneer Group at the Red Rock Line – 1845 | Marvin Beerbohm | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Leon | Rural Free Delivery | Criss Glasell | 1938 | |||
Manchester | Iowa Farm Life | William E. Henning | 1938 | |||
Marion | Communication by Mail | Dan Rhodes | 1939 | restored in 2008 on display at Marion Heritage Center |
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Missouri Valley | Iowa Fair | Francis Robert White | 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 | Dorothea Tomlinson | 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 | Byron B. Boyd | 1936 | |||
Pella | Hollanders Settle in Pella | Byron B. Boyd | 1938 | |||
Rockwell City | Summer | John Sharp | 1941 | |||
Sigourney | Indian Harvest | Richard Olsen | 1940 | |||
Tipton | Cattle | John Bloom | 1940 | |||
Waverly | Letter From Home in 1856 | Mildred Pelzer Lynch | 1938 |
Kansas
editA 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".[72]
Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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.[73] | 1989 | |
Augusta | A Kansas Gusher | Donald Silks | 1940 | 1989 | ||
Belleville | Kansas Stream | Birger Sandzen | 1939 | 1989 | ||
Caldwell United States Post Office, Caldwell | Cowboys Driving Cattle | Kenneth Evett | 1941 | tempera[74] | 1989 | |
Council Grove | Autumn Colors | Charles B. Rogers | 1941 | 1989 | ||
Eureka | Cattle Roundup | Vance Kirkland | 1938 | 1989 | ||
Fort Scott | Border Gateways | Oscar E. Berninghaus | 1937 | |||
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 | H. Louis Freund | 1937 | |||
Hoisington | Wheat Center | Dorothea Tomlinson | 1938 | |||
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 | Bernard J. Steffen | 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 Dr. T. Blakeslee, a physician responsible for much of the peacefulness between the two cultures."[75] | 1989 | |
Olathe | The Mail Must Go Through | Albert T. Reid | 1940 | moved to Olathe Public Library | ||
Oswego United States Post Office, Oswego | Farm Life | Robert E. Larter | 1940 | tempera on canvas[76] | 1989 | |
Russell | Wheat Workers | Martyl Schweig | 1940 | a harvest scene in a regional social realistic style | 1989 | |
Sabetha | The Hare and the Tortoise | Albert T. Reid | 1937 | 1989 | ||
Seneca | Men and Wheat | Joe Jones | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1989 | |
Wichita | Kansas Farming | Richard Haines | 1936 | United States Post Office and Federal Building (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
Wichita | Pioneers in Kansas | Ward Lockwood | 1936 | United States Post Office and Federal Building (Wichita, Kansas) |
Kentucky
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anchorage | Meeting the Train | Loren R. Fisher | 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 | Allan Gould | 1940 | oil on canvas only surviving panel from an original set of 6 |
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Hardinsburg | Kentucky Homestead | Nathaniel Koffman | 1942 | |||
Harrodsburg | An Indian Attack | Orville Carroll | 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 | Mississippi Packets | William E. L. Bunn | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1990 | |
Hodgenville | Hodgen's Mill | Schomer Lichtner | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
Lexington | Daniel Boone's Arrival in Kentucky | Ward Lockwood | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Morehead | The Rural Free Delivery | Frank L. Long | 1939 | former post office is now the Morehead Municipal Building | ||
Morganfield | Rural Free Delivery | Bert Mullins | 1939 | |||
Pineville | Kentucky Mountain Mail En Route | Edward Fern | 1942 | |||
Princeton | Kentucky Tobacco Field | Robert C. Purdy | 1938 | |||
Williamsburg | Floating Horses Down the Cumberland River | Alios Fabry | 1939 |
Louisiana
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Abbeville | The Harvest | Louis Raynaud | 1939 | on display at the Abbeville Museum | ||
Arcadia | Cotton Time | Allison B. Curry | 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 | ||
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 | Mural in post office in the National Register-listed Ferriday Commercial Historic District[79] | ||||
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 | Joseph Pistey, Jr. | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Jenerette | Sugar Cane Mill | Hollis Holbrook | 1941 | fresco | ||
Lake Providence | Life on the Lake | Ethel Edwards | 1942 | |||
Oakdale | Air Express | Harry Lane | 1939 | |||
Rayville | LaSalle's Quest for the Mississippi | Elsie Diggs | 1939 | |||
St. Martinville | Evangeline | Minetta Good | 1940 | [12] | ||
Tallulah | The River | Francisca Negueloua | 1938 | fresco | ||
Ville Platte | Louisiana Bayou | Paul Rohland | 1939 | Relocated from the original post office to the present building in 1971 | ||
Winnsboro | Logging in the Louisiana Swamps | Datus Ensign Myers | 1939 | Building is now a museum. Final mural (see at Flickr) differs from study (shown in image here). |
Maine
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Dexter | News from the Woodsman | Elliot Means | 1941 | |||
Dover-Foxcroft | River Driving | Barrie Barnstow Greenbie | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
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[81] | ||
Kennebunkport | Kennebunkport | Gordon Grant | 1944 | extant; replaced the Tracy mural[82] | ||
Millinocket | Logging in the Maine Woods | John Beauchamp | 1942 | |||
Portland | The Sea | Henry Mattson | 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Bel Air | First Performance of Edwin Booth | William Calfee | 1938 | |||
Bethesda | Montgomery County Farm Women's Market | Robert Franklin Gates | 1939 | after renovation in 2013, the mural was reinstalled in the Bethesda – Chevy Chase Regional Service Center | ||
Catonsville | Incidents in the History of Catonsville | Avery F. Johnson | 1942 | Three panels; currently covered from view[84] | ||
Elkton | Arrival of the Post, 1780 | Alexander B. Clayton | 1939 | oil on canvas Missing[85] |
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Ellicott City | Scenes of Old Ellicott City | R. Dunne | 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 | Judson Smith | 1940 | Mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set | ||
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 | Nicolai Cikovsky | 1937 | on display at the Silver Spring Public Library | ||
Towson | History of Transportation | Nicolai Cikovsky | 1939 | 5 tempera panels |
Massachusetts
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Adams | Quakers and the Site of Adams | Helen Rubin Stoler | 1940 | destroyed during renovation | ||
Arlington | Purchase of Land and Modern Tilling of the Soil | William C. Palmer | 1938[12] | |||
Ashland | The Railroad Comes to Town | Saul Berman | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Boston East Boston Branch |
Communication | Ralf E. Nickelson | 1941 | oil on canvas 4 panels |
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Boston Everett Branch |
Mail for New England | Stephen Etnier | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Canton | Paul Revere – 1801 | Ernst Fiene | 1937 | |||
Chestnut Hill | The Reverend John Elliot Preaching to the Indians | William Abbott Cheever | 1941 | |||
Chicopee Falls | History of Chicopee Falls | Ernst Halberstadt | 1938 | |||
Concord | Battle of the Bridge | Charles Anton Kaeselau | 1941 | |||
Danvers | Return of Timothy Pickering to Reside in Danvers | Dunbar Beck | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Dedham | Early Rural Mail Delivery | W. Lester Stevens | 1936 | |||
Dedham | Early Rural School | W. Lester Stevens | 1936 | |||
East Walpole | Early Paper Making | George Kanelous | 1941 | |||
Falmouth | Recapture of Corn Schooner from British | Karl Oberteuffer | 1943 | 1986 | ||
Holyoke | Captain Elizur Holyoke's Exploring Party on the Connecticut River |
Ross Moffett | 1936 | oil on canvas | 1986 | |
Ipswich | Ipswich Tax Resistance | Saul Levine | 1941 | |||
Lexington | Paul Revere's Ride | Aiden Lassell Ripley | 1940 | |||
Lynn | Colonial and Contemporary Civic Culture | William Riseman | 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 | Joe Lasber | 1941 | mural was "revived" in 1991 | 1987 | |
Milton | The Suffolk Resolves – Oppression and Revolt in the Colonies |
Elizabeth Tracy | 1939 | |||
Natick | John Eliot Speaks to the Natick Indians | Hollis Holbrook | 1937 | tempera [12] |
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Northampton | Work Religion and Education | Alfred Crimi | 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 | Saul Levine | 1942 | tempera | 1986 | |
Stoughton | A Massachusetts Countryside | Jean Watson | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition on display in attic at Stoughton Historic Society |
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Revere | The First Store and Tavern | Ross Moffett | 1939 | |||
Rockport | Preparing Rockport Granite for Shipment | W. Lester Stevens | 1939 | |||
Wareham | Cranberry Pickers | Lewis Rubenstein | 1940 | |||
Weymouth | First landing at Weymouth | Guy Rene′ du Bois | 1942 |
Michigan
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Alma | Harvest | Joseph H. Cox | 1940 | oil on canvas[88] | ||
Belding | Belding Brothers and Their Silk Industry | Marvin Beerbohm | 1943 | |||
Birmingham | The Pioneering Society's Picnic | Carlos Lopez | 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 | |||
Bronson | Harvest | Arthur Getz | 1941 | |||
Buchanan | Production | Gertrude Goodrich | 1941 | Mural was painted over but is being restored | ||
Calumet | Copper Mining in Calumet | Joe Lasker | 1941 | |||
Caro | Mail on the Farm | David Fredenthal | 1941 | |||
Chelsea | The Way of Life | George Fisher | 1938 | Moved to new post office building in August 2009 | ||
Clare | The Mail Arrives in Clare | Allan Thomas | 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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Detroit | Automobile Industry | William Gropper | 1941 | oil on fiberboard On permanent display in the student center at Wayne State University[89] |
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East Lansing | America's First Agricultural College | Henry Bernstein | 1938 | On permanent loan and display at Michigan State University's Main Library | ||
Eastpointe | Early Settlers | Frank Cassara | 1940 | |||
Eaton Rapids | Industry and Agriculture | Boris Mestchersky | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Frankfort | On Board the Ferry Car (Ann Arbor #4, Feb. 14, 1923) | Henry Bernstein | 1941 | 1989 | ||
Grand Ledge | Waiting for the Mail | James Calder | 1939 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
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[90] |
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Greenville | Lumbering | Charles W. Thwaite | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Hamtramck | Products of Industry and Agriculture | Schomer Lichtner | 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 | Jaroslaw Brozik | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Iron Mountain | Historic Treatment of Mail Transportation in the West | Vladimir Rouseff | 1935 | 5 oil on canvas panels | ||
Iron River | Paul Bunyan Straightening Out the Round River' | Milton Horn | July 16, 1941 | wood carved relief[91] | ||
Marquette | Marquette Exploring Shores of Lake Superior | Dewey Albinson | 1938 | On display at the Marquette US Post Office and Federal Courthouse | ||
Midland | Fabricating Steel | Henry Bernstein | 1942 | Relocated to the Midland County Services Building in 1989[92] | ||
Paw Paw | Bounty | Carlos Lopez | 1940 | |||
Plymouth | Plymouth Trail | Carlos Lopez | 1938 | |||
Rockford | Among the Furrows | Pierre Bourdelle | 1940 | |||
Rogers City | Harbor at Rogers City | James Calder | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
St. Clair | St. Clair River | James Calder | 1938 | |||
Wayne | Landscape Near Wayne – 1875 | Algot Stenbery | 1939 | Mural is missing[35] |
Minnesota
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Breckenridge | Arrival of the Rural Mail | Robert Allaway | 1938 | |||
Caledonia | Hog Raising | Edmund Lewandowski | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Cambridge | People of the Soil | Seymour Fogel | 1940 | |||
Chisholm | Discovery of Ore | Betty Carney | 1941 | |||
Ely | Iron-Ore Mines | Elsa Jemne | 1941 | tempera | ||
Ely | Wilderness | Elsa Jemne | 1941 | tempera | ||
Grand Rapids | Life in Grand Rapids and the Upper Mississippi | James Watrous | 1940 | |||
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 Logging at Koochiching 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 | Henry Holstrom | 1938 | |||
Morris | Gager's Trading Post on the Wadsworth Trail | Alfred Sessler | 1943 | |||
North St. Paul | Production | Donald Humphrey | 1941 | tempera on plaster Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Sauk Centre | Threshing Wheat | Richard Jansen | 1942 | |||
St. James | Indian Hunters and Rice Gatherers | Margaret Martin | 1940 | |||
Wabasha | The Smoke Message | Allan Thomas | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Wayzata | Wayzata (Pines of the North) | Ruth Grotenrath | 1947 | one of the latest New Deal murals in existence | ||
White Bear Lake | Early Voyageurs at Portage | Nellie G. Best | 1940 | tempera |
Mississippi
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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 | Eve Kottgen | 1942 | |||
Bay St. Louis | Life on the Coast | Louis Raynaud | 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.[95] | 1998 | |
Carthage | Lumbermen Rolling a Log | Peter Dalton | 1938 | 1983 | ||
Columbus | Out of Soil | Beulah Bettersworth | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1983 | |
Crystal Springs | Harvest | Henry La Cagnina | 1943 | 1993 | ||
Durant | Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil | Isadore Tuberoff | 1942 | |||
Eupora | Cotton Farm | Thomas Savage | 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.[96] | ||
Leland | Ginnin' Cotton | Stuart R. Purser | 1940 | tempera Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
1983 | |
Louisville | Crossroads | Karl Wolfe | 1938 | |||
Macon | Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1944 | |||
Magnolia | Cotton Harvest | John H. Fyfe | 1939 | 1993 | ||
July 4 Celebration at Sheriff Bacof's | ||||||
Magnolia in 1889 | ||||||
New Albany | Milking Time | Roger Cleaver Purdy | 1939 | |||
Newton | Economic Life in Newton in the Earl 1940s | Mary Boggs Frank 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 | Donald H. Robertson | 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 | ||
Vicksburg | Vicksburg, Its Character and Industries | Henriette A. Oberteuffer | 1939 | oil on canvas[97] | Former U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, now privately owned[98][99] | |
Waynesboro | Waynesboro Landscape | Ross E. Braught | 1942 | oil on canvas |
Missouri
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Bethany | Time Out | Joseph Vorst | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Canton | Winter Landscape | Jessie Hull Mayer | 1940 | |||
Cassville | Flora and Fauna of the Region | H. Edward Winter | 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 | Frederick Shane | 1941 | |||
Fredericktown | The Lead Belt | James B. Turnbull | 1939 | oil on canvas | 2009 | |
Higginsville | Industrial Activity in the City | Jac T. Bowen | 1942 | trempera | ||
Jackson | Loading Cattle | James B. Turnbull | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition moved to newer building |
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Lee's Summit | Pastoral | Ted Gilien | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Marceline | Contemporary Life in Missouri | Joseph Meert | 1938 | tempera | ||
Monett | Products of Missouri | James McCreery | 1939 | |||
Mount Vernon | Spring Pastoral | Joseph Meert | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Palmyra | Memories of Marion County | James Penny (artist) | 1939 | oil on canvas, depicts Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Jim | ||
Paris | The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County | Fred G. Carpenter | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Pleasant Hill | Back Home, April 1865 | 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 |
The Postwar Period | Mitchell Siporin | 1942 | Largest single project awarded for a post office by the Section[101][102] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
Commerce and Trade | Edward Millman | 1942 | [103] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
The Territory of Missouri | Mitchell Siporin | 1942 | [104] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
George Rogers Clark and Daniel Boone | Mitchell Siporin | 1942 | [105] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
Pre-Civil War Missouri | Edward Millman | 1942 | [106] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
The Civil War | Mitchell Siporin | 1942 | [107] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
Discovery and Colonization | Mitchell Siporin | 1942 | [108] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
The Struggle for Statehood | Edward Millman | 1942 | [109] | ||
St. Louis Main Post Office |
The River | Edward Millman | 1942 | [110] | ||
Sullivan | Saturday Afternoon on Main Street | Lawrence Adams | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Union | Aspects of Rural Missouri | James Penny (artist) | 1941 | fresco restored and moved to a new post office building |
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University City | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition | Trew Hocker | 1940 | |||
Windsor | Agriculture and Varied Institutes | H. Louis Freund | 1938 | oil on canvas |
Montana
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Billings Post Office and Courthouse, in Billings | Trailing Cattle | Leo J. Beaulauier | 1942 | |||
Deer Lodge | James and Granville Stuart Prospecting in Deer Lodge Valley – 1858 | Verona Burkhard | 1939 | |||
Dillon | News from the States | Elizabeth Lochrie | 1938[12] | |||
Glasgow Post Office and Courthouse, in Glasgow | Montana's Progress | Forrest Hill | 1942 | It is a 72" x 168" painting that earned the painter $1,250.[112][113] | 1986 | |
Hamilton | Flat Head War Party | Henry Meloy | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Sidney | General Sully at Yellowstone | J.K. Ralston | 1942 |
Nebraska
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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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 | [115] | 1992 | |
Crawford | The Crossing | G. Glenn Newell | 1940 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
Geneva U.S. Post Office in Geneva | Building a Sod House | Edward Chavez | 1940 | Completed in 1941; cleaned and restored in 1981.[116] | 1992 | |
Hebron United States Post Office Hebron |
Stampeding Buffaloes Stopping the Train | Eldora Lorenzini | 1939 | oil on canvas[117] | 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[118] | 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 | Eugene Trentham | 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 in Schuyler | Wild Horses by Moonlight | Philip von Saltza | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1992 | |
Valentine | The End of the Line | Kady Faulkner | 1939 | tempera on panel |
Nevada
editLocation | 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 | Polly Duncan | 1940 | 1990 | ||
Yerington | Homestead on the Plain | Adolph Gottlieb | 1941 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
1990 |
New Hampshire
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Lebanon | Rural New Hampshire | Charles Kaesalau | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Milford | Lumberman Log-Rolling | Philip von Saltza | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Peterborough | New Hampshire Post in Winter | Marguerite Zorach | 1938 | 1986 | ||
Plymouth | John Balch-First Post Rider of New Hampshire | R. Crawford Livingston | 1938 | fresco | ||
Wolfeboro | New Hampshire Sugar Camp | Andrew Winter | 1938 |
New Jersey
editLocation | 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 | Avery F. Johnson | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | ||
Cranford | The Battle of Cranford During the American Revolution | Gerald Foster | 1937 | |||
Fort Lee | Indians Trading with the Half Moon | Henry Schnakenberg | 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 | |||
Freehold | Molly Pitcher | Gerald Foster | 1935 | Removed to the Monmouth County Public Library in Manalapan | ||
Garfield | Transportation of the Mail | Robert Laurent | 1937 | |||
Gloucester | The Perils of the Mail | Vincent D'Agostino | 1937 | |||
Glen Ridge | James Chapin | 1938 | ||||
Kearny | The City | Albert Kotin | 1938 | |||
Kearny | The Marsh | Albert Kotin | 1938 | |||
Millburn | Revolutionary Engagement at Bridge in Millburn—1780 | Gerald Foster | 1940 | destroyed[124] | ||
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 F. Johnson | 1942 | |||
Nutley | Return of Annie Oakley | Paul C. Chapman | 1941 | |||
Plainfield | Folklore | Anton Refregier | 1942 | tempera | ||
Plainfield | Quilting Bee | Anton Refregier | 1942 | |||
Princeton | Columbia Under the Palm | Karl Free | 1939 | |||
Ridgefield | Washington Bridge | Thomas Donnelly | 1937 | |||
Riverside | Town of Progress – 1855 | John Poeller | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
South Orange | Outdoor Activities of South Orange | Bernard Perlin | 1939 | |||
Trenton Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse |
Progress of Industry | Charles W. Ward | 1934 | Public Works of Art Project Possibly the first New Deal post office mural[125] |
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Trenton Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse |
The Second Battle of Trenton | Charles W. Ward | 1937 | Treasury Relief Art Project | ||
Trenton Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse |
Rural Delivery | Charles W. Ward | 1937 | Treasury Relief Art Project | ||
Washington | A Raising in Early New Jersey | Frank Shapiro | 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 | William Sean Fausett | 1939 | |||
Wildwood | Activities of the Fishing Fleet | Dennis Burlingame | 1939 | 2 panels |
New Mexico
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Federal Building and United States Courthouse (Albuquerque, New Mexico) | The Pueblo Rebellion of 1680 | Loren Mozley | Oil on canvas, TRAP, probably in Old Post Office (Albuquerque, New Mexico) until ~1972 (?) | 1980 | ||
Clovis | New Mexican Town | Paul Lantz | 1937 | |||
Deming Main Post Office, Deming | Mountains and Yucca | Kenneth M. Adams | 1937 | Mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set | 1990 | |
US Post Office-Portales Main, in Portales | Buffalo Range | Theodore Van Soelen | 1938 | 1990 | ||
Raton | First Mail Crossing Raton Pass | Joseph A. Fleck | 1936 | |||
Raton | Unloading the Mail in Raton | Joseph A. Fleck | 1936 | |||
Roswell Post Office and Courthouse | Justice Tempered with Mercy—Uphold the Right, Prevent the Wrong | Emil Bisttram | 1936 | TRAP, begun under PWAP, moved to ABQ courthouse in 1983[127] | ||
US Post Office-Truth or Consequences Main, in Truth or Consequences Geronimo Springs station |
Indian Bear Dance[128] | Boris Deutsch | 1938 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition, formerly called Hot Springs, NM |
New York
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Akron | Horse-Drawn Railroad | Elizabeth Logan | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
Albany | Ethel M. Parsons | 1935 | oil on canvas Map-style ceiling murals at James T. Foley United States Courthouse depicting the United States, the continents, and Earth's geographical poles |
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Albion | Along the Barge Canal | Judson Smith | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Amsterdam | Departure of a Packet Boat | Henry Schnakenberg | 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 | Thomas Donnelly | 1938 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Baldwinsville | Gateway to the West | Paul Weller | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Beacon | Views of Mid-Hudson Region | Charles Rosen | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Binghamton | Communication | Kenneth Washburn | 1938 | oil on canvas Eight murals |
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Boonville | The Black River Canal – 1845 | Suzanne and Lucerne McCullough |
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 | Anatol Shulkin | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Canastota | The Onion Fields | Alison Mason Kingsbury | 1942 | tempera on canvas | yes | |
Clyde | Apple Pickers | Thomas Donnelly | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Delhi | Down-Rent War, Around 1845 | Mary Earley | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | yes | |
Delmar | The Indian Ladder | Sol Wilson | 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 | Bernard Gussow | 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 | George A. Picken | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Fredonia | The Harvest | 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 | Harold Goodwin | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Hempstead | Hempstead Settlers in 1640 | Peppino Mangravite | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Hempstead | The English Dirigible R-34 Delivering Mail to the United States in Hempstead Field in 1919 | Peppino Mangravite | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Homer | Albany Street Bridge | Frank Romanelli | 1940 | yes | ||
Honeoye Falls | The Life of the Senecas | Stuart Edie | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Hudson Falls | Scenes and Activities of Hudson | George A. Picken | 1937 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Huntington | Huntington Harbor | Paul C. Chapman | 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 |
Frederick Knight | 1937 | yes | ||
Lake George | Lake George | Judson Smith | 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 | Jon Corbino | 1939 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Middleburgh | Dance of the Hop Pickers | Mary Earley | 1941 | oil and tempera | yes | |
Middleport | Rural Highway | Marianne Appel | 1941 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Mount Kisco | Indian Cornfield | Thomas Donnelly | 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 | David Hutchison | 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 | Irving A. Block 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 Woodhaven Station |
The First Amendment | Ben Shahn | 1941 | |||
Nyack | Scenes of local history in the colonial period | Jacob Getlar Smith and Jacob Pelzman |
1936 | yes | ||
Oxford | Family Reunion on Clark Island, Spring 1791 | Mordi Gassner | 1941 | tempera | yes | |
Oyster Bay | Scenes of local history | Ernest Peixotto and Arthur Sturges |
1937 | yes | ||
Oyster Bay | Allegory of North America receiving mail from world | Abell Sturges | 1936 | |||
Painted Post | Recording the Victory[131] | Amy Jones[132] | 1939 | yes | ||
Port Chester | Domenico Mortellito | 1936 | four large murals and nine lunettes depicting dock workers, millowners, tool and die workers and the Life Savers Building |
yes | ||
Port Washington | Lighthouse | Harry S. Lane | 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 | Indian Resting Spot | Gerald Foster | 1939 | A 1690 scene at the "reed covered lodge at the spring place" (Poughkeepsie) where Indian messengers customarily met[133] | yes | |
Poughkeepsie | The Ratification Convention in 1788 | Gerald Foster | 1939 | [133] | ||
Poughkeepsie | Old Poughkeepsie | Gerald Foster | 1939 | [133] | ||
Poughkeepsie | View of Poughkeepsie in 1840 | Georgina Klitgaard | 1940 | |||
Poughkeepsie | Contemporary View of Poughkeepsie from the River | Charles Rosen | 1940 | |||
Rhinebeck | Scenes of local history | Olin Dows | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Richfield Springs | Local landscape | John W. Taylor | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Rockville Centre | Scenes of local history | |
Victor White | 1939 | oil on canvas 4 panels |
yes |
Rome | Barn Raising | Wendell Jones | 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 | Stephan Etneir | 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 | Sol Wilson | 1942 | oil on canvas | yes | |
Whitehall | Settlement of Skenesborough | Axel Horn | 1940 | oil on canvas | yes |
North Carolina
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[21] |
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Ahoskie | Peanut Harvest | Julien Binford | missing[35] | |||
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 | Peter DeAnna | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Boone | Daniel Boone on a Hunting Trip in Watauga County | Alan Tompkins | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
1996 | |
Brevard | Good News | Pietro Lazzari | 1941 | glazed tempera | ||
Burlington | Cotton Textiles Historical Railroad Station |
Arthur Bairnsfather | 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 | Richard Jansen | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Louisburg | Tobacco Auction | Richard Hay Kenah | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Madison | Early Summer in North Carolina | Jean Watson | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Mebane | Landscape-Tobacco Curing | Margaret C. Gates copy by Henry Rood |
1941 | oil on canvas; "destroyed; copy by Henry D. Rood installed in 1964"[35] | ||
Mooresville | North Carolina Cotton Industry | Alicia Wiencek | 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) |
David Silvette | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Red Springs | War-The Battle of Kittle Raft Swamp The Coming of the Scots Peace- Work and Knowledge |
John W. de Groot | 1941 | |||
Reidsville | Tobacco | Gordon Samstag | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Roanoke Rapids | Cotton Pickers | Charles Ward | 1938 | missing[35] | ||
Rockingham | The Past as Connecting Threads in Human Life | Edward Laning | 1937 | triptych, oil on canvas | ||
Roxboro | Gathering Tobacco | Allan Gould | 1938 | "now Piedmont Technical Institute"[35] | ||
Sanford | The Kinfolk of Virginia Dare | Pietro Lazzari | 1938 | |||
Siler City | Building the First House at Siler's Crossroads | Maxwell B. Starr | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Southern Pines | horses | Joseph Presser | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
Wake Forest | Richness of the Soil No. 2 | Harold Egan | 1941 | |||
Wallace | Daydreams | G. Glenn Newell | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Warrenton | North Carolina Pastoral | Alice Dineen | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Whiteville | Harvesting Tobacco | Roy Schatt | 1941 | tempera; missing[35] | ||
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 | William Pfohl | 1940 | oil on canvas |
North Dakota
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Langdon | Indians Demanding Wagon Toll | Leo Beaulaurier | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
New Rockford | Advance Guard of the West | Edward Buk Ulreich | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
1989 | |
Rugby | Rugby, the Geographical Center of North America | Kenneth Callahan | 1943 | oil on canvas | 1989 |
Ohio
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Ada | Country Dance | Albert Kotin | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Amherst | Pioneers Crossing 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 | The Drift Towards Industrialism[138] | Michael Sarisky | 1937 | oil on canvas Lost; replacement commissioned by the Belmont County Historical Society[139] |
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Bedford | The Flight to Industry[140] | Karl Anderson | 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 Hay Kenah | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Caldwell | Noble County-Ohio | Robert Lepper | 1938 | tempera | ||
Canton | Steel Industry | Glenn M. Shaw | 1937 | Treasury Relief Art Project Thirteen panels |
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Chardon | Maple Sugar Camp | George Picken | 1942 | oil on canvas Mural has been moved to an office nearby |
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Cincinnati | Landmarks of Cincinnati | John Holmes Paul Chidlaw Frederick Springer Richard Zoellner |
1934 | Public Works of Art Project[141] | ||
Cleveland Main Post Office |
Post Office Interiors | Jack Greitzer | 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[35] | Clarence Zyuld and John Czosz |
1937 | |||
Coldwater | Coldwater Activities | Joep Nicolas | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Crestline | The Crossroads-Crestline, Ohio | Gifford Beal | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
Dennison | Passenger Pigeon | Edmund Sawyer | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
East Liverpool | Old Bennett Pottery Plant | Roland Schweinsburg | 1936 | 15-foot lunette commissioned by the Treasury Relief Art Project[142] Building is now the Museum of Ceramics[143] |
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East Palestine | Early East Palestine and Dr. Rhett Chamberlain's Post Office and Warehouse | Rolf Stoll | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Eaton | Van Ausdel's Trading Post | Roland Schweinsburg | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Fairborn "formerly Osborn"[35] |
Wright Brothers in Ohio | Henry Simon | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Gambier | Bishop C. Chase Selects Site of Kenyon College | Norris Rahming | 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[35] | ||
Granville | First Pulpit in Granville | Wendell Jones | 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 | James Egleson | 1940 | fresco | ||
Maumee | Communication | Rudolph Scheffler | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Medina | Gathering the Apple Crop | Richard Zoellner | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural was destroyed[35] |
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Montpelier | Harvest, the Annals of America | Leonard Ahneman | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Gilead | Pioneering to Progress | Julius Wyhof | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
New Concord | Skaters | Clyde Singer | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
New Lexington | Great Men Came from the Hills | Isabel Bishop | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
New London | New London Facets | Lloyd R. Ney | 1940 | oil on canvas The only officially Section mural to be labeled "abstract"[144] |
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Oak Harbor | Early Oak Harbor | Clarence Zuelch | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Orrville | Judge Smith Orr and Robert Taggard Planning the New Settlement at Orville-1852 | Aldo Lazzarini | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Perrysburg | Building of Fort Meigs, 1813 | Glenn M. 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 | Richard Zoellner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Portsmouth | Coal Barges | Richard Zoellner | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Ravenna | Early Ravenna | Clarence Carter | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
Springfield | Printing in Springfield | Herman H. Wessel | 1937 | |||
Springfield | Manufacture of Farm Implements | Herman H. Wessel | 1937 | |||
Tipp City | Construction of Miami-Erie Canal in Miami City | Herman Zimmerman | 1940 | tempera | ||
Upper Sandusky | The Mail | Alois Fabry | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Wadsworth | They came as Wadsworth's First Settler after the War of 1812 | F. Thornton Martin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Wapaknneta | Wapakonata and American History | Joseph Limarzi | 1937 | |||
Warren | Romance of Steel, Old and Romance of Steel, Modern |
Glenn Shaw | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Wauseon | Cooperative Planning and Development in Wauseon | Jack Greitzer | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Waverly | Arrival of Packet | Roy Best | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Westerville | The Daily Mail | Olive Nuhfer | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Willard | The Roundhouse | Mitchell Jamieson | 1941 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
Willoughby | White Man's First Sight of Lake Erie | Sterling Smeltzer | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural is "missing?"[35] |
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Yellow Springs | Yellow Springs-Preparation for Lifework | Axel Horn | 1941 | oil on canvas |
Oklahoma
edit[35][134][145] 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 16 panels on Indian life;[35] mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set |
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Claremore | Will Rogers | Randall Davey | 1939 | tempera | ||
Clinton | Race for Land | Loren Mozley | 1938 | oil on canvas "moved?"[35] |
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United States Post Office Coalgate, in Coalgate | Women Making Pishafa[146] also known as Indian Family at Routine Tasks |
Acee Blue Eagle | 1942 | acrylic and tempera[146] Acee Blue Eagle, the artist, was Muscogee Creek Mural was restored by Fred Beaver (Seminole/Muscogee) in 1965[147] |
2009[146] | |
Cordell | The Scene Changes | Ila Turner McAfee | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Drumright | Oklahoma Land Rush | Frank Long | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Edmond | Pre-Settlement Days | Ila Turner McAfee | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Guymon | Harvest | Jay Risling | 1939 ?[35] | Mural was destroyed[35] | ||
United States Post Office Hollis, in Hollis | Planning the Route | Lloyd Goff | 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 | H. Louis Freund | 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[35] |
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Marlow | Cattle Days | Lew E. Davis | 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 | Thomas Stell | 1941 | oil on canvas Mural was damaged and relocated to the Perry Historical Museum[35] |
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Poteau | Cotton | Joan Cunningham | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Purcell | The Roundup | Fred Conway | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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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 | Grace L. Hamilton | 1963 | oil on canvas | ||
Stilwell | Cherokee Farming and Animal Husbandry | Olga Mohr | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Sulphir | Romance of the Mail | Albert Reid | 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.[148] |
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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Burns | Cattle Roundup | Jack Wilkinson | 1941 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Eugene | Willamette Valley Lumber, Farming and Husbandry | |
Carl Morris | 1943 | ||
Grants Pass | Rogue River Indians | Louis DeMott Bunce | 1938 | tempera | ||
Grants Pass | Early and Contemporary Industries | Eric Lamade | 1938 | tempera | ||
Newburg | Early Mail Carriers in the West | Rockwell Carey | 1937 | oli on canvas | ||
Ontario | Trail to Oregon | Edmond J Fitzgerald | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Portland | Post Rider | Paul Grellert | 1936 | destroyed[35] | ||
Saint Johns | Development of St. Johns | John Ballator assisted by Eric Lamade and Louis DeMott Bunce |
1936 | oil on canvas several murals |
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Salem | Builders of Salem | Andrew McD. Vincent | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Tillamook | Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay | Lucia Wiley | 1943 | Fresco secco |
Pennsylvania
editLocation | 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[35] | 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 | Sterling Smeltzer | Created under the PWAP program Mural is missing[151] |
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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[152] |
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Athens | General Sullivan at Tioga Point | Allen Jones | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Bangor | Slate Belt People | Barbara Crawford | 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 | Walter Carnelli | 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 | Bruce Mitchell | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Doylestown | William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory | Charles Child | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Elizabethtown | Squaw's Rest | Lee Gatch | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Farrell | Myths of Vulcan and Juno | Virginia Hargraves Wood (Riggs) | 1939 | Painted over in 1966[35] | ||
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[153] |
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Honesdale | Canal Boat | Walter Gardner | 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 | The Battle of Bushy Run | Designed by T. Frank Olson (d. 1935); painted by Robert Lepper[154] and Alexander J. Kostellow[155][156] | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Jeannette | Glass Industry | Designed by T. Frank Olson (d. 1935); painted by Robert Lepper and Alexander J. Kostellow | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Jenkintown | General Washington's Troops on the Old York Road | Hershel Levit | 1942 | tempera Stored in Jenkintown H.S.[35] |
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Kutztown | Rural Route Number One | Judson Smith | 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 | Harry Leith-Riss | 1941 | |||
Mercer | Clearing the Land | Lorin Thompson | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Morrisville | Canal Era | Yngve Soderberg | 1939 | |||
Mount Union | The Union of the Mountains | Paul Rohland | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Muncy | Rachel Silverthorne's Ride | John W. Beauchamp | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Nazerath | Cement Industry | Ryah Ludins | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Norristown | Local Industry | Paul Mays | 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 | Robert Larter | 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 | Walter Gardner | 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[35] | ||
Pittsburgh PO and Court House |
Pittsburgh Panorama | Stuyvesant Van Veen | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
Pittsburgh Squirrel Hill PO |
History of Squirrel Hill | Alan Thompson | 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 | Harold Lehman | 1943 | oil on canvas | ||
Roaring Spring | Mountain Landscape | Elizabeth Shannon Phillips | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Scottdale | Local Life and Industries | Herry Scheuch | 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 | Alexander Kostellow | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Tunkhannock | Defenders of the Wyoming Country-1778 | Ethel Ashton | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Vandergrift | Railroad Postal Service | Fred Hogg | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Wayne | Anthony Wayne | Alfred Crimi | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Wilkes Barre | Anthracite Coal | George Harding | 1941 | tempera |
Puerto Rico
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Mayagüez | The Indian Mail System | Jose Maduro | 1940 | |||
Mayagüez | Receipt of the First Official Spanish Mail in the Island of Puerto Rico in 1541 | Jose Maduro | 1940 |
Rhode Island
editLocation | 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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Anderson | Corn, Cotton and Tobacco Culture | Arthur Civey | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
Bamberg | Cotton the World Over | Dorothea Miersch | 1939 | oil on canvas | Yes | |
Batesburg-Leesville | Peach Orchard | Irving A. Block | 1941 | |||
Clemson | Meeting of the Original Directors of Clemson College | John Carron | 1941 | oil on canvas On display at Hardin Hall on the campus of Clemson University |
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Greer | Cotton and Peach Growing | Winfred Walkley | 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 Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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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
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Beresford | Spirit of Beresford | David McCosh | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Flandreau | Wheat in the Shock | Matthew Ziegler | 1940 | oil on canvas Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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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[161] |
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Webster | The First White Man in South Dakota | Irvin Shope | 1939 | oil on canvas |
Tennessee
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Bolivar | Picking Cotton | Carl Nyquist | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Camden | Mail Delivery to Tranquility- the First Post Office in Benton County |
John Fyfe | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Joel W. Solomon Federal Building and United States Courthouse, 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.[164] |
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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 | Bertram Hartman | 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 | Charles Child | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Johnson City | Farmer Family | Wendell Jones | 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 Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition |
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Lewisburg | Coming 'Round the Mountain | John H.R. Pickett | 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 | Karl Oberteuffer | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
Manchester | Horse Swapping Day | Minna Citron | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
Mount Pleasant | Early Settlers Entering Mount Pleasant | Eugene Higgins | 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 | Thelma Martin | 1942 | egg tempera |
Texas
editLocation | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed |
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Alice | South Texas Panorama | Warren Hunter | 1939 | Relocated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1968[167] | ||
Alpine | View of Alpine | Jose Moya del Pino | 1940 | oil on masonite | ||
Alvin | Emigrants at Nightfall | Loren Mozley | 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 | Otis Dozier | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Big Spring | Old Pioneers | Peter Hurd | 1938 | fresco | ||
Brady | Texas Immigrants | Gordon K. 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[168] |
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Caldwell | Indians Moving | Suzanne Scheuer | 1939 | oil on canvas, Relocated to Burleson County Courthouse[169] A colored pencil on paperboard study is at Smithsonian Art Museum[170] |
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Canyon | Strays | Frances Ankrom | 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 | Nicholas Lyon | 1938 | oil on canvas Mural destroyed; a study is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art[171] |
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Cooper | Before the Fencing of Delta County | Lloyd Goff | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Corpus Christi | The Sea: Port Activities and Harbor Activities | Howard Cook | 1941 | tempera Relocated to the Nueces County Courthouse, 901 Leopard Street[172] |
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Corpus Christi | The Land: Agriculture, Mineral Resources and Ranching | Howard Cook | 1941 | tempera | ||
Dallas | Eastbound Mail Stage | Peter Hurd | Commission awarded but not completed[173] | |||
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[170] |
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Edinburg | Harvest of the Rio Grande Valley | Ward Lockwood | 1940 | oil and tempera on canvas | ||
El Campo | Landscape | Milford Zornes | 1940 | oil on canvas Mural was "in storage" but now on display in lobby[174] |
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Elgin | Texas Farm | Julius Woeltz | 1940 | |||
Farmersville | Soil Conservation in Collin County | Jerry Bywaters | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
Fort Worth | Dwight Holmes W. H. Baker |
1934 | Six murals commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project[175] | |||
Fredericksburg | Loading Cattle | Otis Dozier | 1942 | oil on canvas[12] | ||
Gatesville | Off to Northern Markets | Joe De Yong | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
Giddings | Cowboys Receiving the Mail |