Berkeley residents protest sale of main post office

Living New Deal team members Gray Brechin and Harvey Smith appear in a recent article on the Berkeley post office in The Daily Californian

[Harvey] Smith and others would like to keep the building, which has notable historic and architectural value, in the public sector. Completed in 1915, the post office is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and contains two pieces of Works Progress Administration artwork, including a mural of early Berkeley history by Suzanne Scheur.

Dr. Sam Redman is an Academic Specialist at the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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