New Deal/WPA Art in Saint Johns, Oregon
This Post Office mural was funded by the Section of Fine Arts under the Treasury Department (north wall) and TRAP (south wall) and not by the WPA.
Saint Johns, OR Post
Office Images courtesy of the USPS Photographs taken by Merat Bagha of the Portland Baha'i Center, which has occupied the old Post Office building since 1992. Photographs courtesy of Jimmy Emerson |
Reference Source:
Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal
by Marlene Park & Gerald E. Markowitz
Look for photographs of Post Office exteriors at the Post Mark Collectors Club (PMCC) Post Office photo page: http://www.postmarks.org/photos
© 2007 Nancy Lorance
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