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Post
Office Murals
(WPA Murals) |
| During
the Great Depression, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought ideas for public
relief projects to inspire Americans to rebuild their lives, an artist friend
asked the President to employ artists to beautify the walls of public buildings
with positive images of American life and history.... (From Post
Office Art by Bob Bowman) |
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Alice, Texas - South Texas Panorama, 1939 by Warren Hunter
Alpine, Texas
View
of Alpine, 1940, by Jose Moya del Pinto
Alvin, Texas Emigrants at Nightfall,
1940, by Loren Mozely
Amarillo, Texas Mural
Panels - Gang Plow, Disk Harrow, Cattle Branding, Cattle Loading, Coronado's Exploration
Party, and Oil, 1940, by Julius Woeltz Feature
Anson,
Texas Cowboy Dance,
1941 by Jenne Magafan Feature
Arlington,
Texas Gathering
Pecans, 1941 by Otis Dozier Feature
(In the Worthington National Bank Building) |
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Baytown, Texas - Texas
by Barse Miller, 1938
Big Spring, Texas - O
Pioneers by Peter Hurd, 1939 Feature
6-12-12
Borger, Texas Big
City News, 1939 by Jose Aceves Feature
(Relocated
to the Hutchinson County Museum)
Brady, Texas Immigrant, 1939 by Gordon Grant
Brownfield, Texas Ranchers
of the Panhandle Fighting Prairie Fire with Skinned Steer, 1940 by Frank
Mechau Feature
(Relocated to the
Brownwood Poilice Headquarters) |
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Caldwell,
Texas Indians
Moving, 1939 by Suzane
Scheuer Feature
(Relocated
to College Station Post Office)
Canyon, Texas - Strays, 1938 by Francis Ankrom
Canyon,
Texas In the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum:
The Cattleman, 1934, and
Ranch Headquarters, 1940 by Harold Bugbee,
Antelope Creek, 1940 and Coronados
Coming, 1940, by Ben Mead
Prehistoric Mammals, 1934 by Gustaf Sunstrom (seven
panels)
Center, Texas, Logging Scene, 1941 by Edward Chavez
Clifton, Texas
- Texas Longhorns: A Vanishing Breed, 1941 by Ila McAffee
Cooper, Texas
Before the
Fencing of Delta County, 1941 by Lloyd Goff
Feature
Corpus Christi, Texas The Sea: Port Activities and Harbor
Fisheries, 1941 by Howard Cook |
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Eastland, Texas Indians Moving, 1940 by Suzane Scheuer
El Campo, Texas -
Rural
Texas Gulf Coast, 1938 by Milford
Zornes Feature
El
Paso, Texas (Federal Courthouse) - Pass of the North, 1938 by Tom Lea
Electra,
Texas Oil, Cattle, Wheat, 1940,
by Allie Tennant
Elgin, Texas Texas
Farm, 1940 by Julius Woeltz Feature |
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Farmersville, Texas - Soil
Conservation in Collin County, 1941, by Jerry
Bywaters
Ft. Worth, Texas - The Taking of Sam Bass, Two Texas Rangers,
and Flags Over Texas, 1940 by Frank Mechau
Fredericksburg, Texas Loading
Cattle, 1939, by Otis Dozier |
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Gatesville,
Texas - Off to Northern Markets, 1939 by Joe De Yong
Giddings, Texas Cowboys
Receiving the Mail, 1939 by Otis Dozier
Goose Creek, Texas Texas,
1938 by Barse Miller
Graham, Texas Oil
Fields of Graham, 1939 by Alexandre Hogue
Feature
(In
the Young County Historical Museum) |
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La
Grange, Texas Horses, 1939 by Tom Lewis
Lamesa, Texas The Horse Breakers,
1940 by Fletcher Martin
Lampasas, Texas Afternoon on a Texas Ranch, 1939
by Ethel Edwards
Liberty, Texas Story
of the Big Fish, 1939 by Howard Fisher Feature
Linden,
Texas The Last Crop,
1939 by Victor Arnautoff
Livingston, Texas Landscape Mural and Buffalo Hunting,
1941 by T. Van Soelen
Lockhart, Texas The
Pony Express Station, 1939 by John Walker Feature
Longview,
Texas Texas Farm Scene by Thomas Stell |
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Odessa, Texas Stampede,
1940 by Tom Lea Feature |
S
San
Antonio San Antonios Importance in Texas History, 1939 by Howard Cook
San
Antonio Autumn and Spring in the Hill Country, 1934 by G. F. Newman
(Brady
Green Clinic now part of University Health Center - Downtown)
Seymour, Texas
Comanches, 19042 by Tom Lea
Sherman, Texas Music, Literature and Painting,
1934 by James Swann
(Sherman Historical Museum)
Smithville, Texas The
Law Texas Rangers, 1940 by Minnie Teichmueller Feature
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Waco Cattle, Indians, 1939 by E. Shonnard
Wellington, Texas Settlers in
Collingsworth County, 1940 by Bernard Arnest | |
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