Brownsville, PA New Deal Art

New Deal/WPA Art in Brownsville, Pennsylvania

This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department and not the WPA.

Brownsville, PA Post Office
"Showing the People in the Early Days Transfering from
Stagecoach to Boat" - oil on canvas
Richard Lahey (1936)

Image courtesy of the USPS

Photograph taken by Stan Angel, Postmaster

Source:
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz

Thanks to Jimmy Emerson who contributed the photograph and his website, the Post Marks Collectors Club (PMCC) at www.postmarks.org/photos.