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[Mural by Paul Rohland in Mt. Union, Pa. Post Office - showing river, bridge and mountains in backgrd.] – Antique Wall Art

[Mural by Paul Rohland in Mt. Union, Pa. Post Office - showing river, bridge and mountains in backgrd.], [between 1933 and 1941] — historic photograph
[Mural by Paul Rohland in Mt. Union, Pa. Post Office - showing river, bridge and mountains in backgrd.], [between 1933 and 1941]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 [Mural by Paul Rohland in Mt. Union, Pa. Post Office - showing river, bridge and mountains in backgrd.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Mural by Paul Rohland in Mt. Union, Pa. Post Office - showing river, bridge and mountains in backgrd.]

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Paul Rohland's mural in the Mt. Union, Pennsylvania, post office stands out for its river, bridge and mountain backdrop, scenery that would have been familiar to the townspeople who saw it daily. Murals like this were commissioned in the 1930s under the federal Section of Fine Arts, which placed paintings in post offices to bring art into ordinary public life during the Depression. The photograph, dated between 1933 and 1941, records the work as it hung in the building. Worth noticing is how the artist tied the community to its own valley scenery.

Created / published[between 1933 and 1941]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNo. 1406. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Murals; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 542 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-156840

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