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About Post
Office Murals :
Post
Office Murals by Michael Barr
Post Office
Art by Bob Bowman
During the Great Depression, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt
sought ideas for public relief projects to inspire Americans to rebuild
their lives, an artist friend asked the President to employ artists
to beautify the walls of public buildings with positive images of
American life and history....Read
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Alice, Texas - WPA Mural "South Texas Panorama", 1939 by
Warren Hunter (Relocated to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in
1968.)
Alice Post Office Mural
Alpine, Texas View
of Alpine, 1940, by Jose Moya del Pinto
Alvin, Texas Emigrants at Nightfall, 1940, by Loren Mozely
Amarillo, Texas Mural
Panels - Gang Plow, Disk Harrow, Cattle Branding, Cattle Loading,
Coronado's Exploration Party, and Oil, 1940, by Julius Woeltz
Feature
Anson, Texas Cowboy
Dance, 1941 by Jenne Magafan Feature
Arlington, Texas Gathering
Pecans, 1941 by Otis Dozier Feature
(In the Worthington National Bank Building) |
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Baytown, Texas - Texas
by Barse Miller, 1938
Big Spring, Texas - O
Pioneers by Peter Hurd, 1939 Feature
Borger, Texas Big
City News, 1939 by Jose Aceves Feature
(Relocated to the Hutchinson County Museum)
Brady, Texas Immigrant, 1939 by Gordon Grant
Brownfield, Texas Ranchers
of the Panhandle Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer, 1940
by Frank
Mechau Feature
(Relocated to the Brownwood Police Headquarters) |
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Caldwell, Texas Indians
Moving, 1939 by Suzane
Scheuer Feature
(Relocated to College Station Post Office)
Canyon, Texas - Strays, 1938 by Francis Ankrom
Canyon, Texas In the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum:
The Cattleman, 1934, and Ranch Headquarters, 1940 by Harold Bugbee,
Antelope Creek, 1940 and Coronados Coming, 1940, by Ben Mead
Prehistoric Mammals, 1934 by Gustaf Sunstrom (seven panels)
Center, Texas, Logging Scene, 1941 by Edward Chavez
Clifton, Texas - Texas Longhorns: A Vanishing Breed, 1941 by Ila McAffee
Cooper, Texas Before
the Fencing of Delta County, 1941 by Lloyd Goff
Feature
Corpus Christi, Texas The Sea: Port Activities and Harbor Fisheries,
1941 by Howard Cook |
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Eastland, Texas Indians Moving, 1940 by Suzane Scheuer
El Campo, Texas - Rural
Texas Gulf Coast, 1938 by Milford
Zornes Feature
El Paso, Texas (Federal Courthouse) - Pass of the North, 1938 by Tom
Lea
Electra, Texas Oil,
Cattle, Wheat, 1940, by Allie Tennant
Elgin, Texas Texas
Farm, 1940 by Julius Woeltz Feature |
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Farmersville, Texas - Soil
Conservation in Collin County, 1941, by Jerry
Bywaters
Ft. Worth, Texas - The Taking of Sam Bass, Two Texas Rangers, and
Flags Over Texas, 1940 by Frank Mechau
Fredericksburg, Texas Loading
Cattle, 1939, by Otis Dozier |
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Gatesville, Texas - Off to Northern Markets, 1939 by Joe De Yong
Giddings, Texas Cowboys
Receiving the Mail, 1939 by Otis Dozier
Goose Creek, Texas Texas,
1938 by Barse Miller
Graham, Texas Oil
Fields of Graham, 1939 by Alexandre Hogue Feature
(In the Young County Historical Museum) |
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La Grange, Texas Horses, 1939 by Tom Lewis
Lamesa, Texas The Horse Breakers, 1940 by Fletcher Martin
Lampasas, Texas Afternoon on a Texas Ranch, 1939 by Ethel Edwards
Liberty, Texas Story
of the Big Fish, 1939 by Howard Fisher Feature
Linden, Texas The
Last Crop, 1939 by Victor Arnautoff
Livingston, Texas Landscape Mural and Buffalo Hunting, 1941 by T.
Van Soelen
Lockhart, Texas The
Pony Express Station, 1939 by John Walker Feature
Longview, Texas Texas Farm Scene by Thomas Stell |
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Odessa, Texas Stampede,
1940 by Tom Lea Feature |
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San Antonio San Antonios Importance in Texas History, 1939 by Howard
Cook
San Antonio Autumn and Spring in the Hill Country, 1934 by G. F.
Newman
(Brady Green Clinic now part of University Health Center - Downtown)
Seymour, Texas Comanches, 19042 by Tom Lea
Sherman, Texas Music, Literature and Painting, 1934 by James Swann
(Sherman Historical Museum)
Smithville, Texas The
Law Texas Rangers, 1940 by Minnie Teichmueller Feature
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Waco Cattle, Indians, 1939 by E. Shonnard
Wellington, Texas Settlers in Collingsworth County, 1940 by Bernard
Arnest |
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