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Post Office Dept Bldg: Transmission of Mail by Day & the Delivery of Mail by Night reliefs in Washington, D.C.
by Adolph Alexander Weinman (click name for more of that artist's work)
located in James M. Goode's Federal Triangle area (click link for more in that area)

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By day (north side)


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0000500/00623_0000008830 (added ca. 2006)


By night (south side)


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The arrow points to The Delivery of the Mail by Day.
The pediments Intercommunication between Europe/Africa (left) and Intercommunication between America/Asia (right) are most prominent in this picture.


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0000500/00623_0000008800 (added ca. 2006)


The arrow points to The Delivery of the Mail by Night.
The pediments Intercommunication between Europe/Africa (left) and Intercommunication between America/Asia (right) are most prominent in this picture.


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0000500/00623_0000008820 (added ca. 2006)

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James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 142 Item #4.18; Federal Triangle area);
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p164 Item #D-21)

Medium: Limestone
Artist: Adolph Alexander Weinman (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Allegory, Mythology
Location: Courtyard bounded by 12th/14th Sts & Penn/Const Aves NW (Between Reagan & Dept of Post Office Bldgs) Washington, D.C.
See Federal Triangle area in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 76009462 (dcMem ID #623 )

Links & other sources
GSA website on Old Post Office Dept Bldg
ArtLex on New Deal Art

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