• Kingsessing Station Post Office (former) Murals - Philadelphia PA
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's old Kingsessing Station post office hosted a pair of New Deal murals: "Philadelphia Waterways with Ben Franklin Bridge" and "View of Downtown Philadelphia Skyline," that were installed in the post office lobby in 1939. The murals were painted by Moses and Raphael Soyer. Upon relocation of postal services in Kingsessing, the murals were removed from the old post office. Presently the murals hang along the back wall of the offices of USPS's Philadelphia Metro District—a facility near the city's primary mail processing plant that is not accessible to the public. The murals have been sliced vertically into multiple segments...
  • Queens Borough Public Library Murals - Queens NY
    The Queens Borough Public Library features a number of murals completed through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The murals are: A. Grant Arnold's "The Big Maple Tree" (1936), Philip Cheney's "12th and Market Sts., Phila." (1936), Louis Lozowick's "Night Repairs" (1939), Nan Lurie's "Next" (1937), Elizabeth Olds's "Pittsburgh" (date unknown), and Raphael Soyer's "Portrait of a Man (A Transient)" and "Working Girls Going Home" (both 1936). The location and status of these works is presently unknown to Living New Deal.