Oil – Historic Print
![Oil, [between 1933 and 1941] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1b/1b4c06d2a8cb-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Oil, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled simply *Oil*, this photoprint documents a mural in the Post Office building in Amarillo, Texas, painted by Julius Woeltz. Murals like this one were commissioned under New Deal federal art programs in the 1930s, when the government paid artists to decorate public buildings with scenes of local work and industry. The title suggests the subject was the Texas Panhandle's petroleum industry, though the 1933 to 1941 date range comes from an unverified caption card.
| Created / published | [between 1933 and 1941] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint of mural in Post Office Bldg., Amarillo, Texas. Mural by Julius Woeltz, 1933-1941. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 702 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152238 |
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