Archive for the ‘New Deal’ Category
The Administration of a Community
March 18, 2011
“The Administration of a Community, detail”
Muralist: Howard Heath (1879-1969)
Former Repository – Town Hall, Westport, Connecticut
WPA Inventory Project – CT State Library
Ladies of the White House secretariat
January 22, 2011
From the Library of Congress: February 19, 1938. Harris & Ewing, photographer. Read the rest of this entry ?
Cincinnati Museum Center
January 21, 2011
Another stop on our 2010 holiday junket to Cincinnati, my nieces Amanda and Claire took us to Cincinnati’s old Union Terminal, which has been given new life as the Cincinnati Museum Center. Built in 1933, Union Terminal is a real monument – Rachel and I found the the mural mosaics by Winold Reiss amazing. I learned a lot from the slightly hokey but informative video here. The gentleman above occupies a place in the massive north mural. Read the rest of this entry ?
