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" During the New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt commissioned murals and sculptures in more than 1,100 Post Offices across the nation. The huge, wall-length murals show miners in West Virginia and farmers in Iowa, immigrants in New York City and steel workers in Ohio. Many were painted by the most famous artists of the time. President Roosevelt chose Post Offices because they were the focal point of every community in America. In their permanence, their architectural beauty, their central location on Main Street, Post Offices were physical representations of the uplifting ability of government to serve everyone. Local motifs and themes were chosen to show that the government serves every unique community. Photos of the murals were collected in Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal, the seminal book on the subject by Marlene Peck and Gerald E. Markowitz, which is now out of print. But thanks to help from Temple University Press, some of the murals can be seen together online for the first time ever.  PLUS: Do We Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? ALSO: Sign This Petition "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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