Lincoln in New Salem, Illinois, WPA mural inside the post office in my hometown of Petersburg, IL (62675), painted in 1938 by John Winters; The Reverend John Eliot Preaching to the Indians, painted by William Abbott Cheever in 1941, in the post office in Chestnut Hill, MA (02467).
@mbattles The interiors of these post-office lobbies are wonderfully similar, which suggests there was a pattern book or published specification for post-office interiors in this time frame.
@ablerism Doing a dive on this question, stumbled across Edgar Miller’s remarkable sculptural program for Jane Addams House in CHI—for the children’s wading pool!—recently restored for the National Public Housing Museum (which I didn’t know), and which seems remarkable, too).
