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Post Office Dept Bldg: America & Orient tympanum in Washington, D.C.
by Adolph Alexander Weinman (click name for more of that artist's work)
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0000500/00625_0010018519 (added ca. 5/5/2007)
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0000500/00625_0000008900 (added ca. 2006)
Around the corner to the left of the Eagle is the Delivery of the Mail by Night panel. The Primitive Means of Communication reliefs are below the pediment.
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0000500/00625_0000008910 (added ca. 2006)
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.
Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 66400064 (dcMem ID #625 )
| Alluded to with 4.17 & D.20 but not named |
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GSA website on Old Post Office Dept Bldg
ArtLex on New Deal Art
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