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TITLE: Chicago -the Epoch of a Great CityARTIST: Harry Sternberg MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938DIMENSIONS: 7'7'' x 24'2" LOCATION: Lakeview Station, Chicago, Illinois Post Office
TITLE: Will Rogers ARTIST: Randall Davey MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1939 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 12'LOCATION: Claremost, Oklahoma Post Office
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TITLE: Old Settlers ARTIST: William Schwartz MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1936 DIMENSIONS: 3' x 4'LOCATION: Fairfield, Illinois Post Office
TITLE: Pride of Cambridge CityARTIST: Samuel Hershey MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS:4.5 x 10' LOCATION: Cambridge City, Indiana Post Office
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TITLE: Winter Sports ARTIST: Edward Morton MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 14'LOCATION: Oconomowoc, WI Post Office
TITLE: Somerset-Farm Scene ARTIST: Alexander J. Kostellow MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1941DIMENSIONS: 7' x 12'
LOCATION: Somerset, Pennsylvania Post Office
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TITLE: The Covered Bridge ARTIST: Henry Bernstein MEDIUM: tempera on gesso DATE: 1941DIMENSIONS: 5' x 12' LOCATION: Mount Sterling, Illinois Post Office
TITLE: Good News and BadARTIST: Davenport Griffen MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS:5' x 12' LOCATION: Flora, Illinois Post Office
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TITLE: The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe CountyARTIST: Fred G. CarpenterMEDIUM: oil on canvasDATE: 1940 DIMENSIONS: 4' x 12' LOCATION: Paris, Missouri Post Office
TITLE: Waiting for the MailARTIST: Grant Christian MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938 DIMENSIONS: 4.5' x 12'LOCATION: Nappannee, IN Post Office
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Alexandria, IN Post Office, "The Sledding Party" - oil on canvas Roland Schweinsburg (1938)
Attica, IN Post Office
"Trek of the Covered Wagon to Indiana" - oil on canvas
Reva Jackman (1938)
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Bloomfield, IN Post Office, "Waiting for the Mail" by Lilian Swann Saarinen (1941) - terra-cotta relief
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Cambridge City, IN Post Office
"Pride of Cambridge City" - oil on canvas
Samuel F. Hershey (1941)
Franklin, IN Post Office
"Local Industry" - oil on canvas
Jean Swiggett (1940)
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Danville, IN
Post Office
"Filling the Water Jugs - Haymaking Time"Gail W. Martin (1939)
oil on canvas
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Gas City, IN Post Office
"Gas City in Boom Days" - oil on canvas
William A. Dolwick (1939)
Liberty, IN Post Office
"Autumn Fields" - oil on canvas
Avery Johnson (1939)
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Ligonier, IN Post Office
"Cutting Timber" - oil on canvas
Fay E. Davis (1940)
North Manchester, IN Post Office
"Indiana Farm - Sunday Afternoon" - oil on canvas
Alan Tompkins (1938)
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Pendleton, IN Post Office
"Loggers" - oil on canvasWilliam F. Kaeser (1941)
Tipton, IN Post Office
"Indiana Farming" - oil on canvas
Donald Mattison (1937)
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Carl Morris' Eugene Post Office murals: Agriculture, Lumbering
Grants Pass, OR Post Office
"Rogue River Indians" - tempera
Louis DeMott Bunce (1938)
Grants Pass, OR Post Office
"Early and Contemporary Industries" - tempera
Eric Lamade (1938)
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Saint Johns, OR Post Office, "Development of St. Johns"- murals
John Ballator (Eric Lamade and Louis DeMott Bunce, assistants) (1936)
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Tillamook, OR Post Office
"Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay" - fresco secco
by Lucia Wiley (1943)
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Clarkston, WA Post Office
"Lewis and Clark" - wood relief
by Donlon P. McGovern (1940)
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Mount Vernon, WA Post Office
"Local Pursuits" - oil on canvas
by Ambrose Patterson (1938)
Sedro-Wooley, WA Post Office
"Loggers and Millworkers" - oil on canvas
by Albert C. Runquist (1941)
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Shelton, WA Post Office
"Skid Row" - temperaRichard Haines (1940)
Batesburg, SC Post Office
"Peach Orchard"
by Irving A. Block (1941)
mural
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Walterboro, SC Post Office
"Past and Present Agriculture and Industry of Colleton County" - mural
by Sheffield Kagy (1938)
3c Byrd Antarctic Expedition Sketch by FDR, 1933
To help support Richard Byrds second expedition to Antarctica, President Roosevelt approved a s tamp as partial payment
for mail to the special post office in Little America. After rejecting four designs, FDR sketched a map with routes of Byrds
expeditions.
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3c Mothers of America Sketch by FDR, 1934
Although originally intended to honor artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, at FDRs direction the stamp as issued honored
mothers on Mothers Day mail. The designer altered the painting Whistlers Motherby removing the background and the
womans feet and adding a vase of flowers.
5c Virginia Dare Sketch by FDR, 1937
Roosevelts design for the stamp commemorating the colony of Roanokes 350th anniversary featured an image of the first
English child born in America. He requested the square stamp be 5c and in the color baby blue.
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6c Eagle Airmail Sketch by FDR, 1938
The red and blue bicolor stamp featuring the American eagle was based on a design FDR sketched to help distinguish
airmail letters from regular mail. The first day of issue coincided with National Air Mail Week, a nationwide campaign to
promote the use of airmail.
3c 50th Anniversary of Statehood Sketch by FDR, 1939
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington each wanted a commemorative stamp for its fiftieth anniversary.
FDR instead drew a single stamp that incorporated all four states on a map. Each state released the stamp at its capital
city on the anniversary of its admission to the Union.
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Bridgeville, PA Post Office
"Smelting" - fresco
Walter Carnelli (1941)
Mercer, PA Post Office
"Clearing the Land" - oil on canvas
Lorin Thompson (1940)
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Nazareth, PA Post Office
"Cement Industry" - oil on canvas
Ryah Ludins (1938)
Palmyra, PA Post Office
"Reaping," "The Oldest Church in the Valley," and "Ploughing" - wood reliefs
Alice Decker (1940)
(now on display at the Bindnagle Lutheran Church in Palmyra)
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Scottdale, PA Post Office (zipcode 15683)
"Local Life and Industries,"
by Harry William Scheuch (1937), oil on canvas, funded by TRAP
Restored in 1967
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Alpine, TX Post Office
(building vacant as of 2005)
"View of Alpine" - oil on masonite
by Jose Moya del Pino (1940)
Arlington, TX Post Office
(building now used as the Worthington National Bank)
"Gathering Pecans" - oil on canvas
by Otis Dozier (1941)
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Graham, TX Post Office
"Oil Fields of Graham" - oil on canvas
Alexandre Hogue (1939)
Victor Mikhail Arnautoff Mural: The Last Crop:Located in the Linden U.S. Postal Service Building at the cornerof Rush St. and Kaufman St.
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Calexico, CA Post Office
(building now privately owned)
"Lettuce Workers" - tempera
by George Samerjan (1942)
Pacific Grove, CA Post Office
"Lovers' Point" - oil on canvasby Victor Arnautoff (1940)
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Placerville, CA Post Office
"Forest Genetics" - oil on canvas
by Tom E. Lewis (1941)
Redwood City, CA Post Office
(855 Jefferson Street)
"Flower Farming and Vegetable Raising" - oil on canvas
by Jose Moya del Pino (1937)
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Reedley, CA Post Office
"Grape Pickers" - oil on canvasby Boris Deutsch (1941)
St. Helena, CA Post Office
Grape Pickers by Lew Keller (1942)
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Sebastopol, CA Post Office
"Agriculture" - mural
by Mallette Dean (1937)
(funded by TRAP)
Post Office in Selma, CA
"Land of Irrigation"
by Norman Chamberlain (1938) - oil on canvas
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Brewton, AL Post Office "Logging" - missing*
by John Von Wicht (1939)
Hartselle, AL Post Office "Cotton Scene" - mural
Lee R. Warthen (1941)
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Oneonta, AL Post Office
(building now the Blount County Courthouse Annex;
currently houses the Blount County Board of Education offices)
"Local Agriculture - A.A.A. 1939" - oil on canvas
by Aldis B. Browne (1939)
Mount Hope, WV Post Office
"Mining" - oil on canvas
by Michael Lensen (1942)
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Saint Albans, WV Post Office "Science and Industry" - wood
Reuben R. Kramer (1941)
Chilton, WI Post Office "Threshing Barley" - tempera
Charles W. Thwaites (1940)
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This 5'x 12-1/2' oil on canvas mural is in the lobby of the Post Office. Titled
"Dairy Farming" by Richard Jansen, it was installed in 1940.
Phoebus, VA Post Office
"Chesapeake Fisherman" - fresco
by William H. Calfee (1941)