New Deal/WPA Art in Cambridge City, Indiana


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

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

Image courtesy of the USPS

This Post Office mural was restored by Parma Conservation, Inc.

Photograph from Elizabeth Kendall,
Parma Conservation, Inc., Chicago, Illinois 60608

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


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