Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Pennsylvania between 1934 and 1943. Location Mural title Image Artist Date Notes NRHPlisted Aliquippa Western Pennsylvania Niles Spencer 1938 oil on canvas; now in the National Museum of American Art Allentown Ten panels on the area Gifford Beal 1939 oil on canvas; ten panels Altoona Pioneers of Altoona Lorin Thompson 1938 oil on canvas Growth of the Road Sterling Smeltzer Created under the PWAP program; mural is missing Ambler The Family-Industry and Agriculture Harry Sternberg 1939 oil on canvas; artist painted himself and his wife and child as The Family Athens General Sullivan at Tioga Point Allen Jones 1941 oil on canvas Bangor Slate Belt People Barbara Crawford 1941 Beaver Falls The Armistice Letter Eugene Higgins 1938 oil on canvas Belle Vernon Men of Coal and Steel Michael Loew 1942 oil on canvas Bridgeville Smelting Walter Carnelli 1941 frescoMural was destroyed Brownsville Showing the People in the Early Days Transferring from Stagecoach to Boat Richard Lahey 1936 oil on canvas Burgettstown View of Burgettstown John Fulton Folinsbee 1942 oil on canvas California Monongahela River Saul Berman 1939 oil on canvas Canonsburg Beatty's Barn Peter Blume 1937 oil on canvas Catasauqua Arrival of the Stage F. Luis Mora 1936 oil on canvas Columbia Columbia Bridge Bruce Mitchell 1938 oil on canvas Doylestown William Markham Purchases Bucks County Territory Charles Child 1937 oil on canvas Elizabethtown Squaw's Rest Lee Gatch 1942 oil on canvas Farrell Myths of Vulcan and Juno Virginia Hargraves Wood (Riggs) 1939 Painted over in 1966 Freeland Freeland John Fulton Folinsbee 1938 oil on canvas; "This mural depicts a view of Freeland from Butler Terrace. Familiar buildings of the town may be seen at the left. In the central section are the mine and large breaker. In the right foreground is the Drifton State Bank, a landmark of the vicinity." — John FolinsbeeKirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered, (Hudson Hills Press, 2013), p. 96. Honesdale Canal Boat Walter Gardner 1937 oil on canvas Clearing the Wilderness Coal Gravity Railroad Visit by Washington IrvingJeannetteThe Battle of Bushy RunT. Frank Olson, designer (d. 1935)1938oil on canvas Robert Lepper Alexander J. KostellowGlass IndustryT. Frank Olson, designer (d. 1935) Robert Lepper Alexander J. Kostellow Jenkintown General Washington's Troops on the Old York Road Hershel Levit 1942 temperaStored in Jenkintown H.S. Kutztown Rural Route Number One Judson Smith 1937 oil on canvas Manheim The First Orchestra in America Theresa Bernstein 1938 oil on canvas Masontown General LaFayette is Welcomed at Friendship Hill by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gallatin on May 27, 1925 Harry Leith-Riss 1941 Mercer Clearing the Land Lorin Thompson oil on canvasWinner of the 48-State Mural Competition Morrisville Canal Era Yngve Soderberg 1939 Mount Union The Union of the Mountains Paul Rohland 1937 oil on canvas Muncy Rachel Silverthorne's Ride John W. Beauchamp 1938 oil on canvas Nazerath Cement Industry Ryah Ludins 1938 oil on canvas Norristown Local IndustryPaul Mays 1936 oil on canvas U.S. Mail Custom House and Appraisers Stores, Philadelphia Customs and Court Activities and Various Court Activities George Harding 1938 Thirty-one panels Kingsessing Branch, PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Waterways with Ben Franklin BridgeMoses Soyer1939oil on canvas Raphael Soyer View of Downtown Philadelphia Skyline Moses SoyerRaphael Soyer North Philadelphia Branch, Philadelphia Mail Delivery George Harding 1939 tempera City Country Northern Coast Office Home Tropics History of Mail Transportation by Water PhiladelphiaSouthwark Branch, Philadelphia Iron Plantation near Southwark-1800 Robert Larter 1938 oil on canvas Shopyards at Southwark-1800 Spring Garden Branch, Philadelphia Streets of Philadelphia Walter Gardner 1938 oil on canvas Post Office and Court House, Pittsburgh Steel Industry Howard Cook 1936 fresco Modern Justice Kindred McLeary 1937 Mural was painted over Pittsburgh Panorama Stuyvesant Van Veen 1937 oil on canvas Squirrel Hill Post Office, Pittsburgh History of Squirrel Hill Alan Thompson 1942 oil on canvas Plymouth Meal Time with the Early Coal Miners Jared French 1938 oil on canvas Quakertown Quaker Settlers Bertram Goodman 1938 oil on canvas Renovo Locomotive Repair Operation Harold Lehman 1943 oil on canvas Roaring Spring Mountain Landscape Elizabeth Shannon Phillips 1942 oil on canvas Scottdale Local Life and Industries Herry Scheuch 1937 oil on canvasThree panels West Scranton Branch, Scranton Nature's Storehouse Herman Maril 1941 oil on canvas Sellersville Carrying the Mail Harry Sternberg 1937 tempera Selinsgrove Susquehanna Trail George Rickey 1939 tempera Somerset Somerset-Farm Scene Alexander Kostellow 1941 oil on canvas Tunkhannock Defenders of the Wyoming Country-1778 Ethel Ashton 1941 oil on canvas Vandergrift Railroad Postal Service Fred Hogg 1939 oil on canvas Wayne Anthony Wayne Alfred Crimi 1941 oil on canvas Wilkes Barre Anthracite Coal George Harding 1941 tempera
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