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Post Office Dept Bldg: Primitive Means of the Transmission of Communication metopes (carved relief panels) 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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"Helio Signal of Antiquity"

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"Blanket Signal"

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"Communication by Carrier Pigeons"

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"Smoke Signal of the American Indian"

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"Drum Signal of the African Savage"

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With the "America and the Orient" tympanum

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0000500/00626_0000009040 (added ca. 2006)

More Info
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James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 143 Item #4.19; Federal Triangle area);
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p165 Item #D-22)

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 66400058 also control # 66400062 (dcMem ID #626 )

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

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