Photographer Justin Hamel stumbled on a Great Depression-era mural one day in a New York post office, and was intrigued to learn there are 1,200 of them across the country.
Depression-era mural from Lincoln Park, MI, post office to be celebrated
News-Herald: Gregory Wittkopp, director of the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, will give a presentation on the Depression-era Lincoln Park Post office mural, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Lincoln Park Historical Museum, 1335 Southfield Road. The mural entitled, “Hauling in the Net,” was created in 1939-1940 by acclaimed Michigan artist Zoltan Sepeshy in his studio at the Cranbrook … Read More
New book shows & tells the story of Wisconsin’s New Deal murals
During the 1930s and 40s, under the New Deal, the United States Government commissioned over 1,100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Wisconsin received 35 of these murals. A new book, Wisconsin Post Office Murals, by David W. Gates Jr., shows and tells the elusive and often overlooked story of their existence. The book follows on Gates’ earlier guidebook … Read More
Couple leads petition against Lynden Post Office mural
Lynden Tribune: International Saints and Abolitionists, an organization that aims to eradicate sex trafficking, has started a petition to change the mural on display in the Post Office in Lynden, Wash. The mural, titled “Three Ages of Phoebe Goodell Judson,” was painted in 1942 by Mordi Gassner as part of a New Deal program for artists, and is his artistic … Read More
New Deal murals returning to Old Post Office in Kilgore, TX
Longview News Journal: For decades, the New Deal murals of artist Xavier Gonzalez held places of honor on the walls of the 1939 post office in Kilgore, Texas. For the past 20 years, the artwork has been in the care of East Texas Oil Museum at Kilgore College. As of Monday, they will be back home. The four works of … Read More
Rediscovering Wisconsin’s New Deal Post Offices and Murals
During the Great Depression, the federal government built nearly two thousand post offices. Over a thousand of them were adorned with murals, sculptures, and other art works celebrating American workers, local histories, and significant events. Wisconsin Post Office Mural Guidebook, by David W. Gates Jr., tells the story of the historic post offices in Wisconsin. The guidebook provides an account of all … Read More
Local tech company to occupy historic Union Square post office in Somerville, MA
thesomervilletimes.com: The historic Union Square Post Office building in Somerville, MA, will soon be home to RightHand Robotics, a local technology company that grew out of a team of researchers from Harvard, Yale and MIT. RightHand Robotics is a leader in end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment across industries, bringing the latest technological developments from the lab … Read More
How about a USPS stamp series celebrating Post Office murals?
The Postal Service possesses over a thousand murals produced by FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression. The paintings celebrate American workers, local histories, and significant national events. The murals themselves should be celebrated with a new USPS stamp series. hile the volume of First Class single-piece mail has been steadily dropping (at about 3.6 percent annually for the past two years), good old-fashioned postage stamps are still … Read More
Valentine post office in Loveland CO delivers history
Loveland Reporter-Herald: When I first decided to write a story about our post office building on Sixth Street and Cleveland Avenue, I received a request. The Reporter Herald’s seasoned business reporter and all-around nice guy, Craig Young, urged me to include in my musings, the old boiler. Craig further implored me to read and mention a certain children’s book in … Read More
Post office mural missing for decades rediscovered
A mural of pre-World War II Richmond, Calif., considered missing for nearly four decades, will once again be put on display. The painting, an oil on canvas that shows union workers and their supervisors against a backdrop of the Standard Oil Refinery, was commissioned by federal Works Progress Administration in 1940 as a way to employ artists during the Great … Read More
Restored post office mural to be re-installed in museum
The depression-era mural, Emigrants at Nightfall by Loren Mozley, was removed from the walls of the post office in Alvin, Texas, back in 1966, and put into storage in the basement. Many years later a postal employee contacted the Alvin Museum Society and asked if they would like to have it. Now, decades later, the mural has been restored, and on September … Read More
Under lock and key: The New Deal post office art of Palm Beach County
Three New Deal post offices in Palm Beach County, Florida, feature important murals painted in the 1930s. But one of the buildings isn't serving as a post office anymore, and the art is "under lock and key." The former Palm Beach post office buidling on N. County Road now serves as the offices for billionaire real estate tycoon Jeff Greene, who purchased … Read More
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