Photograph of mural "The Opening of the West" (1937) by Robert Francis White at Federal Building &amp; U.S. Courthouse, Cedar Rapids, Iowa<br>Notes:
<ul><li>Date: 1937; medium: tempera.</li>
<li>Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.</li>
<li>Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer.</li>
<li>Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.</li>
<li>Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).</li>
<li>Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.</li></ul>
More information: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cedar-rapids.org/things-to-see-do/artsculture/pages/cedar-rapids-federal-courthouse-mural.aspx">History of the Cedar Rapids Federal Courthouse Mural</a><br>In March 2011, nearly fifty years since being painted over the last time, the U. S. General Services Administration utilized a historic preservation grant to hire Page Conservation, Inc., Washington, D.C., to uncover the north wall of the mural. The wall was created by Francis Robert White and depicts “The Opening of the Midwest.” The panel depicts the suffering of American Indians, the struggles of the early settlers, slaves and immigrant workers on the Mississippi, laborers building the transcontinental railroad, the rise of single family farms, followed by industry, tenements and pollution.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Carol_M._Highsmith" class="extiw" title="w:en:Carol M. Highsmith"><span title="American photographer">Carol M. Highsmith</span></a>
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