National Associate David W. Gates Jr., Jr. of Crystal Lake, Illinois, has been photographing and writing about U.S. Post Offices for over 15 years. As founder of postofficefans.com, he has visited hundreds of post offices nationwide, many built by the New Deal during the Great Depression. Between 1934 and 1943 murals and other forms of art were commissioned and installed in public buildings under the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, later renamed the Section of Fine Arts. Artists competed for the commissions. Gates estimates that between 1,100 and 1,400 works of art are in post offices nationwide. As the Postal Service sells off these historic buildings, the fate of the many murals and artworks is unknown. Some get moved to other public locations, while others are no longer accessible. David’s second guidebook to post office murals (the first covers Wisconsin) took him to Tennessee, where he documented 28 New Deal post offices and their murals. The guidebook can be downloaded to your mobile phone. For more on David’s work, visit https://www.