Post Office Dept Bldg: Primitive Means of the Transmission of Communication metopes (carved relief panels) in Washington, D.C. by Adolph Alexander Weinman located in James M. Goode's Federal Triangle area

Adolph Alexander Weinman(click name for more of that artist's work)
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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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0000500/00626_0000009020 (added ca. 2006)

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0000500/00626_0000008980 (added ca. 2006)

With the "America and the Orient"tympanum

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0000500/00626_0000009040 (added ca. 2006)

More Info
See 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 areain 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 66400058also control # 66400062 (dcMem ID #626 )

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GSA website on Old Post Office Dept Bldg
ArtLex on New Deal Art

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