List of United States post office murals

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 

Agriculture and Industries of Ventura: Gordon Kenneth Grant (1908–1940) was commissioned to create murals for the post office in Ventura, California, in 1938.

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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
Atmore The Letter Box   Anne Goldthwaite 1938
Brewton Logging   John Von Wicht 1939 oil on canvas
Missing
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Address County Coordinates Notes NRHP
listed[21]
Alhambra El Gringo, El Indio, El Paysan     Gordon K. Grant 1938 Los Angeles painted over[23]
BerkeleyUnited 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 / 37.8691; -122.2699 tempera and oil on canvas 1981
Beverly HillsBeverly 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 / 34.0726; -118.4023 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 / 32.6676; -115.4963 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 / 34.2010; -118.6031
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 / 34.0954674; -117.7163
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 / 34.0954674; -117.7163 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 / 33.8955; -118.2243
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 / 34.0206; -118.3970 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
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 / 33.8704; -117.9218 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 / 37.6707; 122.0837
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 / 33.9791; -118.2225 oil on canvas
seven panels
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 / 32.8471; -117.2725 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 / 34.6982; -118.1392 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 / 34.0584; -118.237 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 / 34.0553; -118.2423 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 / 34.0553; -118.2423 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 / 34.0553; -118.2423 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 / 38.0178; -122.1337 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 / 34.1993; -119.1785
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 / 37.4855; -122.2280 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 / 36.5976; -119.4491 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]
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
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 / 33.7365; -118.2804 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 / 38.4003; -122.8232 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 / 34.1145; -118.1531 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
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]
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 / 34.280; -119.2904 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 / 33.9806; -118.0350 tempera
painted over
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

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[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]
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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
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
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
Starke Reforestation Elizabeth Terrell 1942
Tallahassee History of Florida Eduard Buk Ulreich 1939 oil on canvas
8 panels
West Palm Beach The Legend of James Edward Hamilton, Mail Carrier   Stevan Dohanos 1940 tempera
6 panels

Georgia

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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]
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
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed

Idaho

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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]
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.
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.
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
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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
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
Tipton Indiana Farming   Donald Mattison 1937 oil on canvas
Union City Country Cousins Donald Mattison 1938 oil on canvas

Iowa

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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, Iowa Farm Life, 1938
William E. Henning 1938
Marion Communication by Mail Dan Rhodes 1939 restored in 2008
on display at Marion Heritage Center
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

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A number of Kansas post offices were listed on the National Register on basis of their murals, as part of a study of "Kansas Post Offices with Artwork, 1936-1942".[72]

Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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
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]
Northampton Work Religion and Education Alfred Crimi 1940 oil on canvas
on display at the Hampshire County Courthouse
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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.
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
Detroit Automobile Industry   William Gropper 1941 oil on fiberboard
On permanent display in the student center at Wayne State University[89]
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]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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
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
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
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
University City The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Trew Hocker 1940
Windsor Agriculture and Varied Institutes   H. Louis Freund 1938 oil on canvas

Montana

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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]
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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[129][130]

Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed[21]
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.
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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.
Barnesville The Drift Towards Industrialism[138]   Michael Sarisky 1937 oil on canvas
Lost; replacement commissioned by the Belmont County Historical Society[139]
Bedford The Flight to Industry[140] Karl Anderson 1937 oil on canvas
Building now used by as offices for an architectural firm.
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
Caldwell Noble County-Ohio Robert Lepper 1938 tempera
Canton Steel Industry   Glenn M. Shaw 1937 Treasury Relief Art Project
Thirteen panels
Chardon Maple Sugar Camp George Picken 1942 oil on canvas
Mural has been moved to an office nearby
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
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
Yellow Springs Yellow Springs-Preparation for Lifework Axel Horn 1941 oil on canvas

Oklahoma

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[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
Anadarko   Stephen Mopope 1938 oil on canvas
16 panels on Indian life;[35] mural featured on 2019 Post Office Murals stamp set
Claremore Will Rogers Randall Davey 1939 tempera
Clinton Race for Land Loren Mozley 1938 oil on canvas
"moved?"[35]
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
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]
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]
Poteau Cotton Joan Cunningham 1940 oil on canvas
Purcell The Roundup Fred Conway 1940 oil on canvas
Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition
Sayre The Opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Country
 
1940
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
Burns Cattle Roundup   Jack Wilkinson 1941 oil on canvas
Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition
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
Salem Builders of Salem Andrew McD. Vincent 1942 oil on canvas
Tillamook Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay   Lucia Wiley 1943 Fresco secco

Pennsylvania

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
Aliquippa Western Pennsylvania   Niles Spencer 1938 oil on canvas
Currently in the National Museum of American Art
Allentown Ten panels on the area[35] Gifford Beal 1939 oil on canvas
10 panels
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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
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

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
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]
Webster The First White Man in South Dakota Irvin Shope 1939 oil on canvas

Tennessee

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
listed
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
Clarksville Abundance of Today   F. Luis Mora 1938 oil on canvas
Destroyed
Clinton Farm and Factory Horace Day 1940 tempera
Relocated to new Clinton P.O.
building in 1989.[164]
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
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
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
Ripley Autumn Marguerite Zorach 1940 oil on canvas
Sweetwater Wild Boar Hunt Thelma Martin 1942 egg tempera

Texas

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Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHP
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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
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]
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]
Canyon Strays Frances Ankrom 1939 oil on canvas
Mural has been relocated to the
new Canyon P.O. building
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
Conroe Early Texans   Nicholas Lyon 1938 oil on canvas
Mural destroyed; a study is in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art[171]
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]
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]
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]
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