"Lewistown Milestones"
"Lewistown Milestones"
Photo: Jimmy S Emerson, DVM Used with permission of the United States Postal Service©. All rights reserved. "Lewistown Milestones"
"Lewistown Milestones"
Description
The tempera mural “Lewistown Milestones” was painted by Ida Abelman and installed in the Lewistown, Illinois post office in 1941.
The New Deal Art Registry notes that the mural “can be seen 24-7 through a glass window.”
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"Lewistown Milestones" detail
"Lewistown Milestones" detail
Photo: Jimmy S Emerson, DVM Used with permission of the United States Postal Service©. All rights reserved. "Lewistown Milestones" detail
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Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural 'Cartoon' by Ida Abelman
National Archives Record Group 121-GA: Records of the Public Building Service
Prints – Photographs of Paintings and Sculptures Commissioned by the Sect. of Fine Arts, 1934-1943
Box 1: Ida Abelman, Lewistown, IL folder.
Scanned and processed by Evan Kalish, July 2014.
Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural 'Cartoon' by Ida Abelman
Public Domain Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural 'Cartoon' by Ida Abelman
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Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural Sketch by Ida Abelman
National Archives Record Group 121-GA: Records of the Public Building Service
Prints – Photographs of Paintings and Sculptures Commissioned by the Sect. of Fine Arts, 1934-1943
Box 1: Ida Abelman, Lewistown, IL folder.
Scanned and processed by Evan Kalish, July 2014.
Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural Sketch by Ida Abelman
Public Domain Lewistown, IL: Post Office Mural Sketch by Ida Abelman
Source notes
https://www.newdealartregistry.org/rendersites/Lewistown/IL/
https://www.wpamurals.com/sld021.htm
National Archives Record Group 121-GA: Records of the Public Building Service
Prints – Photographs of Paintings and Sculptures Commissioned by the Sect. of Fine Arts, 1934-1943
Box 1: Ida Abelman, Lewistown, IL folder.
Project originally submitted by New Deal Art Registry; edited and posted by Evan Kalish on July 22, 2014.
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