"Milking Time" Mural
Description
“Milking Time,” by Robert Cleaver Purdy, is an oil-on-canvas mural completed and installed in 1939 in what was then the New Albany, Mississippi post office. It remains in the building, which is currently used as the Union County Development Association building.
Source notes
Embree, J. (1996). "New Albany Downtown Historic District." Nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. Fazio, M. W., Parrish, W. E., Blackwell, T., & Frank, C. (1979). "Four Building Act of 1926 Post Offices and Thirty Two Public Works Administration Post Offices Thematic Resources." Nomination form for the National Register of Historic Places. Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Historic Resources Inventory database. Retrieved from https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=19864&view=facts&y=657
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on March 8, 2014.
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