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  • Post Office Bas Relief - Everett PA
    The historic Everett post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: a pleaster bas relief sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts entitled "Signing of the Constitution." The work was created by Hazel Clere.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Hamburg PA
    A carved-wood bas relief sculpture, titled "Home," is housed in the lobby of the historic Hamburg, Pennsylvania post office. Funded by the federal Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts, the work was created Nathaniel Kaz and completed in 1941.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Irwin PA
    Chaim Gross completed this carved wood bas relief, entitled "Puddlers," in 1942 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It was installed in the Irwin post office lobby. It was moved to the new post office in 1965. The bas relief was removed from its unsecured space in the post office lobby after it was professionally evaluated at over $250,000.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Mahanoy City PA
    The plaster bas relief housed in the lobby of the Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania post office was created with Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts funds. The work was completed by Malvina Hoffman in 1939.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - McDonald PA
    The bas relief "Agriculture and Industry," by August Jaegers, was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in the historic McDonald, Pennsylvania post office in 1937.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Mercersburg PA
    The plaster bas relief sculpture that hangs in the lobby of the Mercersburg, Pennsylvania post office is entitled "Good News." The work was created by Joseph Nicolosi and installed at the post office in 1938.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Meyersdale PA
    The New Deal relief "Harvesters at Rest" was completed with federal Treasury Department funds in 1940. The work was installed in the historic Meyersdale post office and is still visible there today.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Midland PA
    The historic post office in Midland, Pennsylvania houses an example of New Deal artwork: the wood relief "Steel Workers," by Humbert Albrizio, which was completed with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds in 1940.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Mifflinburg PA
    A striking four-panel set of painted plaster bas reliefs resides in the lobby of Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania's historic post office building. The reliefs, collectively titled "Pioneers of the Community," were funded by the federal Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts. Marguerite Bennett Kassler completed the work in 1941.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Northumberland PA
    The bas relief sculpture that hangs in the lobby of the Northumberland, Pennsylvania post office is entitled "Dr. Joseph Priestley." Carved from red mahogany, the work was created by Dina Melicov and installed at the post office in 1942.
  • Post Office Bas Relief - Oakmont PA
    The terra cotta relief "Allegheny River" was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The work was created by Franc Epping and installed in the historic Oakmont post office in 1942.
  • Post Office Bas Reliefs - Boyertown PA
    The post office contains three plaster bas reliefs by Moissaye Marans, created under the auspices of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts in 1941. The reliefs are called "Transfer of Skill," "Education," and "Barnyard."
  • Post Office Bas Reliefs - Milton PA
    The post office in Milton is home to five sculptures by Louis A. Maene, all completed in 1936 with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and viewable on the exterior facade. There is the bronze sculpture entitled "Milton Topography," the limestone bas relief entitled "Native Americans," and the limestone bas reliefs depicting modes of transporting the mail and entitled, "Truck," "Locomotive," "Ship," "Plane," and "Pony Express,"
  • Post Office Mural - Ambler PA
    Harry Sternberg painted this oil on canvas mural in 1939, entitled "The Family--Industry and Agriculture"--with funds provided by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The man, woman, and child in the mural are Sternberg, his wife, and their infant child. Created for the then-new former post office in Ambler, it has since been relocated to Ambler's current postal facility.
  • Post Office Mural - Athens PA
    The historic post office building in Athens, Pennsylvania houses an example of New Deal artwork: "General Sullivan at Tioga Point," a mural commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The work was completed by Allan Jones in 1941.
  • Post Office Mural - Bangor PA
    The historic Bangor post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Slate Belt People," a mural commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts. Completed in 1941, the work was created by Barbara Crawford. The work is distinctive in that it is painted on four slate panels. According to an information page on site: Commissioned in July of 1940, this mural is one of approximately one thousand murals that were installed in post offices by the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts between 1934 and 1943. Unlike Great Depression programs such as WPA, these murals were not intended as relief and were often...
  • Post Office Mural - Beaver Falls PA
    The mural "The Armistice Letter" was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in the historic Beaver Falls post office in 1938. The work is still visible there today.
  • Post Office Mural - Bridgeville PA
    The historic 1938 post office in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania housed an example of New Deal artwork: "Smelting," painted by Walter Alton Carnelli in 1941. The mural was destroyed in 1965, but a photo reproduction and descriptive plaque are present.
  • Post Office Mural - Brownsville PA
    The post office contains a 1936 Section of Fine Arts mural "Showing the People in the Early Days Transferring from Stagecoach to Boat" painted by Richard Lahey. Brownsville, PA is located on the Monongahela River in southwest Pennsylvania and this mural shows early transportation and the transfer of people from the stagecoach to steamboat. The women are dressed in their finest. Richard Lahey was born in New Jersey and studied at the Student’s Art League of New York, taught at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Student’s Art League, Goucher College, and the Corcoran in Washington, DC.
  • Post Office Mural - Burgettstown PA
    The mural "View of Burgettstown" was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts and installed in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania's historic post office building in 1942.
  • Post Office Mural - California PA
    The historic post office in California, Pennsylvania houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Monongahela River," an oil-on-canvas mural completed in 1939 by Saul Berman. The work was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Canonsburg PA
    The 1937 mural "Beatty's Barns," created for the then-new Canonsburg post office, was painted by Peter Blume for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. In 1937, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described the mural's unveiling as "a detailed, realistic piece of down-at-the-heel farmscape which the layman can readily understand. In fact, the mural's popularity is due, probably, to the familiarity of its objects--a ramshackle farmhouse, a broken fence, a disintegrating automobile, and so on." Eleanor Roosevelt admired the original sketch so much that she hung it in the White House.
  • Post Office Mural - Catasauqua PA
    The mural "Arrival of the Stage," located in the lobby of the historic Catasauqua post office, was a New Deal work commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The mural was completed in 1936 and is still visible today.
  • Post Office Mural - Columbia PA
    Bruce Mitchell painted the oil-on-canvas mural "Columbia Bridge" in 1938 for the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. It is viewable in the lobby of the Columbia post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Doylestown PA
    The mural "William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory" was painted for the historic (former) post office building in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The mural now resides in the lobby of Doylestown's newer, mid-1980s post office. "Charles Child, a 35-year-old artist who lived in Lumberville, was selected to create a mural for the Doylestown office in 1937. For his mural, Child chose to depict the founders of Bucks County and Doylestown. ... Child completed the mural in November 1937. The mural, 11 feet wide and 4 feet high, is divided into a 6-foot-wide center panel flanked by two smaller panels."   (doylestown.patch.com)
  • Post Office Mural - Elizabethtown PA
    This Section of Fine Arts-funded oil painting titled "Squaw’s Rest" was painted by Lee Gatch in 1942. It hangs in the post office lobby.
  • Post Office Mural - Farrell PA
    The historic post office building in Farrell, Pennsylvania houses a Treasury Section of Fine Arts mural in the lobby. The mural, titled "Myths of Vulcan and Juno," was painted by Virginia Wood (Riggs) in 1939. Unfortunately, the mural was painted over in 1966 and has thus effectively been destroyed.
  • Post Office Mural - Freeland PA
    The historic post office building in Freeland, Pennsylvania houses a New Deal mural funded by the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. The oil-on-canvas mural "Freeland," painted by John F. Folinsbee, was completed in 1938 and is viewable in the post office lobby.
  • Post Office Mural - Kingston PA
    A 1941 Section of Fine Arts-funded tempera painting titled "Anthracite Coal" was painted by George Harding and hangs in the post office lobby.
  • Post Office Mural - Manheim PA
    The historic Manheim post office houses an example of New Deal artwork: the 1938 Section of Fine Arts-funded oil painting titled "The First Orchestra in America" was painted by Theresa Bernstein. The artist can be seen in a 1993 video discussing the mural at the CUNY.edu link in the Source Notes below.
  • Post Office Mural - Masontown PA
    The oil-on-canvas mural "General Lafayette is Welcomed at Friendship Hill By Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin on May 27, 1825" was painted with federal Treasury Department funds and mounted in the lobby of the historic Masontown, Pennsylvania post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Mercer PA
    The 1940 mural "Clearing the Land," by Lorin Thompson, was a winner of the Treasury Section's 48-State Post Office Competition. The work was installed in the Mercer, Pennsylvania post office and is still visible today.
  • Post Office Mural - Muncy PA
    Medium: oil on canvas A 1938 Section of Fine Arts-funded oil painting titled "Rachel Silverthorne’s Ride" was painted by John W. Beauchamp and hangs in the post office lobby.
  • Post Office Mural - Nazareth PA
    The mural "Cement Industry" was completed with Treasury Section of Fine Arts funds in 1938. It resides in the historic Nazareth, PA post office to this day.
  • Post Office Mural - Plymouth PA
    A 1938 Section of Fine Arts-funded mural titled “Meal Time with the Early Coal Miners” was painted by Jared French and hangs in lobby of the historic Plymouth post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Renovo PA
    The oil-on-canvas mural "Locomotive Repair Operation" was painted as a federal Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts project by Harold Lehman. The work was installed in the lobby of the then-new Renovo post office in 1943.
  • Post Office Mural - Roaring Spring PA
    The historic post office in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania houses an example of New Deal artwork: "Mountain Landscape," a mural by Elizabeth Shannon Phillips. The 1942 work was commissioned by the federal Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
  • Post Office Mural - Selinsgrove PA
    The tempera-on-canvas mural "Susquehanna Trail" was painted as a federal Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts project by George Rickey. The work was installed in the lobby of the then-new Selinsgrove post office in 1939.
  • Post Office Mural - Sellersville PA
    The tempera-on-canvas mural "Susquehanna Trail" was painted as a federal Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts project by Harry Sternberg. The work was installed in the lobby of the then-new Sellersville post office in 1937.
  • Post Office Mural - Somerset PA
    Alexander Kostellow's mural of a farm scene at the Somerset post office was painted in 1941 with funds from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
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