Post Office Mural – Bamberg SC

City:
Bamberg, SC

Site Type:
Art Works, Murals

New Deal Agencies:
Arts Programs, Treasury Section of Fine Arts (TSFA)

Completed:
1939

Artist:
Dorothea Mierisch

Description

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 and the international trade system. The mural was painted in 1939 by Dorothea Mierisch under the auspices of the Section of Fine Arts.

Mierisch also painted the mural, “First Official Air Mail Flight,” in the McLeansboro Post Office in Illinois.

Source notes

https://www.wpamurals.org/scarolin.htm

Site originally submitted by Claire Stringer on February 7, 2014.

Location Info


11955 Heritage Hwy
Bamberg, SC 29003
Bamberg County

Coordinates: 33.296795, -81.03385

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