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kitesandtrainsandcats
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04 Dec 2020, 10:25 am

Here's what you need for that prize winning Post Office model you are building this year,

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"In some areas, life has moved on more dramatically. Take one of Hamel’s favorite murals, Locomotive Repair Operation by Harold Lechman in the Renovo, Pennsylvania, post office—near where the photographer grew up—which shows six men working in the Pennsylvania Railroad repair shops that are now no longer there. "


Appreciating America’s Overlooked, Forgotten, and Discarded Post Office Murals
Painted during the Great Depression, they’re lingering expressions of civic pride.
by Winnie Lee
April 7, 2020

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/post-office-murals


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04 Dec 2020, 11:00 am

Those are very nice paintings. Working on them must have gotten those artists through that very rough time.


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05 Dec 2020, 9:55 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
Working on them must have gotten those artists through that very rough time.

Good point; to have a thing to do, which suits you and your skills, has a lot of power in life and living.


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