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TITLE: Chicago -the Epoch of a Great City ARTIST: Harry Sternberg MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938 DIMENSIONS:

7'7'' x 24'2" LOCATION: Lakeview Station, Chicago, Illinois Post Office

TITLE: Will Rogers ARTIST: Randall Davey MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1939 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 12' LOCATION: Claremost, Oklahoma Post Office

TITLE: Old Settlers ARTIST: William Schwartz MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1936 DIMENSIONS: 3' x 4' LOCATION: Fairfield, Illinois Post Office

TITLE: Pride of Cambridge City ARTIST: Samuel Hershey MEDIUM: Tempera DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 10' LOCATION: Cambridge City, Indiana Post Office

TITLE: Winter Sports ARTIST: Edward Morton MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 14' LOCATION: Oconomowoc, WI Post Office

TITLE: Somerset-Farm Scene ARTIST: Alexander J. Kostellow MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS: 7' x 12' LOCATION: Somerset, Pennsylvania Post Office

TITLE: The Covered Bridge ARTIST: Henry Bernstein MEDIUM: tempera on gesso DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 12' LOCATION: Mount Sterling, Illinois Post Office

TITLE: Good News and Bad ARTIST: Davenport Griffen MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1941 DIMENSIONS: 5' x 12' LOCATION: Flora, Illinois Post Office

TITLE: The Clemens Family Arrives in Monroe County ARTIST: Fred G. Carpenter MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1940 DIMENSIONS: 4' x 12' LOCATION: Paris, Missouri Post Office

TITLE: Waiting for the Mail ARTIST: Grant Christian MEDIUM: oil on canvas DATE: 1938 DIMENSIONS: 4.5' x 12' LOCATION: Nappannee, IN Post Office

Alexandria, IN Post Office, "The Sledding Party" - oil on canvas Roland Schweinsburg (1938)

Attica, IN Post Office "Trek of the Covered Wagon to Indiana" - oil on canvas Reva Jackman (1938)

Bloomfield, IN Post Office, "Waiting for the Mail" by Lilian Swann Saarinen (1941) - terra-cotta relief

Cambridge City, IN Post Office "Pride of Cambridge City" - oil on canvas Samuel F. Hershey (1941)

Franklin, IN Post Office "Local Industry" - oil on canvas Jean Swiggett (1940)

Danville, IN Post Office "Filling the Water Jugs - Haymaking Time" Gail W. Martin (1939) oil on canvas

Gas City, IN Post Office "Gas City in Boom Days" - oil on canvas William A. Dolwick (1939)

Liberty, IN Post Office "Autumn Fields" - oil on canvas Avery Johnson (1939)

Ligonier, IN Post Office "Cutting Timber" - oil on canvas Fay E. Davis (1940)

North Manchester, IN Post Office "Indiana Farm - Sunday Afternoon" - oil on canvas Alan Tompkins (1938)

Pendleton, IN Post Office "Loggers" - oil on canvas William F. Kaeser (1941)

Tipton, IN Post Office "Indiana Farming" - oil on canvas Donald Mattison (1937)

Carl Morris' Eugene Post Office murals: Agriculture, Lumbering

Grants Pass, OR Post Office "Rogue River Indians" - tempera Louis DeMott Bunce (1938)

Grants Pass, OR Post Office "Early and Contemporary Industries" - tempera Eric Lamade (1938)

Saint Johns, OR Post Office, "Development of St. Johns"- murals John Ballator (Eric Lamade and Louis DeMott Bunce, assistants) (1936)

Tillamook, OR Post Office "Captain Gray Entering Tillamook Bay" - fresco secco by Lucia Wiley (1943)

Clarkston, WA Post Office "Lewis and Clark" - wood relief by Donlon P. McGovern (1940)

Mount Vernon, WA Post Office "Local Pursuits" - oil on canvas by Ambrose Patterson (1938)

Sedro-Wooley, WA Post Office "Loggers and Millworkers" - oil on canvas by Albert C. Runquist (1941)

Shelton, WA Post Office "Skid Row" - tempera Richard Haines (1940)

Batesburg, SC Post Office "Peach Orchard" by Irving A. Block (1941) mural

Walterboro, SC Post Office "Past and Present Agriculture and Industry of Colleton County" - mural by Sheffield Kagy (1938)

3c Byrd Antarctic Expedition Sketch by FDR, 1933

To help support Richard Byrds second expedition to Antarctica, President Roosevelt approved a stamp as partial payment for mail to the special post office in Little America. After rejecting four designs, FDR sketched a map with routes of Byrds expeditions.

3c Mothers of America Sketch by FDR, 1934

Although originally intended to honor artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler, at FDRs direction the stamp as issued honored mothers on Mothers Day mail. The designer altered the painting Whistlers Mother by removing the background and the womans feet and adding a vase of flowers.

5c Virginia Dare Sketch by FDR, 1937 Roosevelts design for the stamp commemorating the colony of Roanokes 350th anniversary featured an image of the first English child born in America. He requested the square stamp be 5c and in the color baby blue.

6c Eagle Airmail Sketch by FDR, 1938 The red and blue bicolor stamp featuring the American eagle was based on a design FDR sketched to help distinguish airmail letters from regular mail. The first day of issue coincided with National Air Mail Week, a nationwide campaign to promote the use of airmail.

3c 50th Anniversary of Statehood Sketch by FDR, 1939 North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington each wanted a commemorative stamp for its fiftieth anniversary. FDR instead drew a single stamp that incorporated all four states on a map. Each state released the stamp at its capital city on the anniversary of its admission to the Union.

Bridgeville, PA Post Office "Smelting" - fresco Walter Carnelli (1941)

Mercer, PA Post Office "Clearing the Land" - oil on canvas Lorin Thompson (1940)

Nazareth, PA Post Office "Cement Industry" - oil on canvas Ryah Ludins (1938)

Palmyra, PA Post Office "Reaping," "The Oldest Church in the Valley," and "Ploughing" - wood reliefs Alice Decker (1940) (now on display at the Bindnagle Lutheran Church in Palmyra)

Scottdale, PA Post Office (zipcode 15683) "Local Life and Industries," by Harry William Scheuch (1937), oil on canvas, funded by TRAP Restored in 1967

Alpine, TX Post Office (building vacant as of 2005) "View of Alpine" - oil on masonite by Jose Moya del Pino (1940)

Arlington, TX Post Office (building now used as the Worthington National Bank) "Gathering Pecans" - oil on canvas by Otis Dozier (1941)

Graham, TX Post Office "Oil Fields of Graham" - oil on canvas Alexandre Hogue (1939)

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff Mural: The Last Crop: Located in the Linden U.S. Postal Service Building at the corner
of Rush St. and Kaufman St.

Calexico, CA Post Office (building now privately owned) "Lettuce Workers" - tempera by George Samerjan (1942)

Pacific Grove, CA Post Office "Lovers' Point" - oil on canvas by Victor Arnautoff (1940)

Placerville, CA Post Office "Forest Genetics" - oil on canvas by Tom E. Lewis (1941)

Redwood City, CA Post Office (855 Jefferson Street) "Flower Farming and Vegetable Raising" - oil on canvas by Jose Moya del Pino (1937)

Reedley, CA Post Office "Grape Pickers" - oil on canvas by Boris Deutsch (1941)

St. Helena, CA Post Office Grape Pickers by Lew Keller (1942)

Sebastopol, CA Post Office "Agriculture" - mural by Mallette Dean (1937) (funded by TRAP)

Post Office in Selma, CA "Land of Irrigation" by Norman Chamberlain (1938) - oil on canvas

Brewton, AL Post Office "Logging" - missing* by John Von Wicht (1939)

Hartselle, AL Post Office "Cotton Scene" - mural Lee R. Warthen (1941)

Oneonta, AL Post Office (building now the Blount County Courthouse Annex; currently houses the Blount County Board of Education offices) "Local Agriculture - A.A.A. 1939" - oil on canvas by Aldis B. Browne (1939)

Mount Hope, WV Post Office "Mining" - oil on canvas by Michael Lensen (1942)

Saint Albans, WV Post Office "Science and Industry" - wood Reuben R. Kramer (1941)

Chilton, WI Post Office "Threshing Barley" - tempera Charles W. Thwaites (1940)

This 5'x 12-1/2' oil on canvas mural is in the lobby of the Post Office. Titled "Dairy Farming" by Richard Jansen, it was installed in 1940.

Phoebus, VA Post Office "Chesapeake Fisherman" - fresco by William H. Calfee (1941)

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