New Deal/WPA Art in North Manchester, Indiana


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

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

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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