• Post Office (former) - Alvin TX
    From Flickr user Courthouselover in 2012: "Built in 1940, this former post office today acts as the Alvin Historical Museum. The old mural that once hung in this post office's lobby today is rolled up in storage awaiting restoration." Since then, the mural has been restored, thanks to the efforts of former Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan and his wife Ruth. It now hangs in the museum.
  • Post Office (former) Murals - Waterloo IA
    Two New Deal murals by Edgar Britton adorn the walls of the Waterloo Public Library (the former post office and federal building). The murals entitled "Exposition" (located on the wall over the Youth Office) and "Holiday" (located in the Fiction Department) were painted in 1940.
  • Post Office Mural - Tipton IA
    "In the post office of Tipton, Iowa, high above the heads of those who come to weigh their packages and buy stamps, hangs a mural. Titled “Cattle,” and painted in 1940 by John V. Bloom, it’s a warm, bucolic scene, with a farmer tipping a bucket into a trough to feed his contented pigs. This is a gentle farm and harmonious barnyard, where tidy stacks of hay dot the field, black-and-white chickens gaze reverentially at their master, and cattle patiently wait for supper. Corncobs and stalks litter the yard, but the neatly painted red barn and fence make it clear...
  • Post Office Mural - Sigourney IA
    New Deal mural "Indian Harvest" painted by Richard Olsen in 1940 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office - Hawarden IA
    Constructed as part of a federal works program in 1940.
  • Post Office Mural - Bloomfield IA
    John Sharp painted this oil on canvas mural, entitled "Autumn in Iowa," in 1940 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the Bloomfield post office library.
  • Carl C. Mose Sculptures - Salina KS
    These New Deal statues entitled "Communication" and "Land" were installed by Carl C. Mose in 1940 in what was then the Salina Post Office and Courthouse. The sculptures still decorate the original building which is now the Smoky Hill Museum.
  • Post Office Mural - Russell KS
    The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts oil-on-canvas mural entitled "Wheat Workers" painted in 1940 by Martyl Schweig. This is a classic regionalist portrayal of wheat workers in the fields during the transition from hand work to a mechanized harvest. The motion and hard work is palpable and in the background are the oil derricks that western Kansas is also known for. Martyl was born to Aimee Schweig, a well-known artist in St. Louis and one of the organizers of the Ste. Genevieve artist colony that thrived from 1930-1940. Martyl was a prodigy, studying with her mother and the other...
  • Post Office Mural - Oswego KS
    The post office contains a Section of Fine Arts mural "Farm Life" painted by Robert E. Larter in 1940. This depicts 2 seasons of farm work with the man on the left chopping wood with a hat and coat, the man on the right feeding hogs, though the trees in the background have no leaves. Robert Larter studied at Choate School and Yale University school of Fine Arts. He taught art at Washburn, University from 1938. There is another mural by Larter in Philadelphia.
  • Post Office Mural - Dover-Foxcroft ME
    The Dover-Foxcroft post office features this mural, "River Driving", by Barrie Barstow Greenbie (1920-1988). Greenbie was trained at the Corcoran School of Art in New York, and this was his first job.  Painted in 1940, it made Greenbie possibly the youngest artist ever commissioned by the Work Projects Administration (WPA), according to a University of Massachusetts website entry on his life.  However, it is more likely that the mural was painted under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, not the WPA.