Post Office – Bamberg SC

The historic post office building in Bamberg, South Carolina was built in 1937; a New Deal mural titled “Cotton the World Over” hangs in the lobby.

Post Office Mural – Bamberg SC

This bleak and provocative map of cotton trade routes, flanked by scenes of men at work (on the left, it seems, from the American South, and on the right, “the East”), portrays the dominance of South Carolina’s exploitative cotton industry… read more