Post Office Dept Bldg: America & Orient tympanum in Washington, D.C. by Adolph Alexander Weinman

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0000500/00625_0010018519 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

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0000500/00625_0010018499 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

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0000500/00625_0010018489 (added ca. 11/24/2006)

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0000500/00625_0010018509 (added ca. 5/5/2007)

From the south with Intercommunication between Europe/Africain the background

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0000500/00625_0000008900 (added ca. 2006)

Around the corner to the left of the Eagleis the Delivery of the Mail by Nightpanel. The Primitive Means of Communicationreliefs are below the pediment.

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0000500/00625_0000008910 (added ca. 2006)

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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 - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 66400064 (dcMem ID #625 )

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Post Office Dept Bldg: America & Orient tympanum in Washington, D.C.
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Alluded to with 4.17 & D.20 but not named

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