Berea, KY New Deal Art

New Deal/WPA Art in Berea, Kentucky

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

Berea, KY Post Office
"Berea Commencement in the Old Days" - tempera on plaster
Frank Long (1940)
(The building is now used as the City Hall)

Images courtesy of the USPS

Photographs taken by Jimmy Emerson, November 2005

Reference 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 photographs!

Look for photographs of Post Office exteriors at the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Post Office photo page: http://www.postmarks.org/photos