List of United States post office murals in Illinois
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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Illinois between 1934 and 1943.[1][2][3]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP
listed[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berwyn | The Picnic | Richard Haines | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Bushnell | Pioneer Home in Bushnell | ![](#/media/File:Bushnell,_Il_Post_Office_mural,_"Pioneer_Home_in_Bushnell"_by_Reva_Jackman.JPG) |
Reva Jackman | 1938 | oil on canvas | |
| Cairo | Sandbagging the Bulkheads | Wendell Jones | 1944 | Completed, but refused. Returned to government custody, but after being shown in an international mural exhibition at the end of World War II[5] | ||
| Carmi | Service to the Farmer | Davenport Griffen | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Carthage | Pioneers Tilling Soil and Building Log Cabin | _SAAM-1962.8.84_1.jpg) |
Karl Kelpe | 1939 | oil on canvas | 1989 |
| Chicago
Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. |
Advent of the Pioneers, 1851 |  |
Frances Foy | 1938 | oil on canvas, was on display at Cardiss Collins Post Office; moved to Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. | |
| The Great Indian Council – 1833 |  |
Gustaf Dalstrom | 1934 | oil on canvas, installed at the Chestnut St. Station; moved to Loop Station, 211 S. Clark St. | ||
| Chicago
Lakeview Station |
Chicago: Epoch of a Great City |    |
Harry Sternberg | 1938 | oil on canvas; self-portrait of the artist as a scientist in the lower left corner | |
| Chicago
Main Post Office |
Mural Maps | Charles Turzak | 1937 | oil on canvas, 27 panel; painted over but restored in 2000; in the many upper-floor offices of General McCoy, head of the Sixth Army Corpsl | 2001 | |
| Chicago
Morgan Park Station |
Father Jacques Marquette, 1674 |  |
Theodore Johnson | 1937 | oil on canvas | |
| Chillicothe | Railroading | ![](#/media/File:Chillicothe,_Il_Post_Office_mural,_"Rail_Roading"_by_Arthur_H._Lidov_(cropped).jpg) |
Arthur Lidov | 1942 | tempera on board | |
| Clinton | Clinton in Winter | Aaron Bohrod | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Decatur | The Fusion of Agriculture and Industry | Mitchell Siporin | 1938 | fresco | ||
| Early Pioneers | Edward Millman | 1938 | three murals and a fresco | |||
| Social Consciousness | ||||||
| Growth of Democracy | .jpg) | |||||
| Frank Lloyd Wright | ,_(Study_for_mural,_Decatur,_Illinois_post_office)_SAAM-1974.28.304_1.jpg) |
Edgar Britton | 1938 | fresco | ||
| Carl Sandburg | | |||||
| Natural Resources of Illinois | ||||||
| John Deere | ||||||
| Colonel Francis Parker | ||||||
| Development of Illinois | ||||||
| Des Plaines | Father Marquette | James M. Newell | 1945 | two murals | ||
| Downers Grove | Chicago, Railroad Center of the World | Elizabeth Tracy | 1940 | oil on canvas | ||
| Dwight | Stage at Dawn | Carlos Lopez | 1937 | fresco | ||
| East Alton | The Letter | Frances Foy | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
| East Moline | Early Settlers of Moline Along the Mississippi | Edgar Britton | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
| Eldorado | Mining in Illinois | _SAAM-1974.28.326_1.jpg) |
William Schwartz | 1937 | oil on canvas | |
| Elmhurst | There Was a Vision | George Melville Smith | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Fairfield | Old Settlers | William Schwartz | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
| Flora | Good News and Bad | _SAAM-1974.28.18_1.jpg) |
1937 | oil on canvas | ||
| Forest Park | The White Fawn | _SAAM-1974.28.316_1.jpg) |
Miriam McKinnie | 1940 | damaged during removal; in storage at Forest Park Public Library | |
| Galesburg | Breaking the Prairie, Log City 1837 | .JPG) |
Aaron Bohrod | 1938 | oil on canvas | |
| Geneva | Fish Fry in the Park | Manuel Bromberg | 1941 | tempera | ||
| Gibson City | Hiawatha Returning with Minnehaha | ![](#/media/File:Gibson_City,_IL_Post_Office_mural,_"Hiawatha_Returning_with_Minnehaha"_by_Francis_Foy.JPG) |
Frances Foy | 1940 | oil on canvas | |
| Gillespie | Illinois Farm | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1935 | oil on canvas | ||
| Glen Ellyn | Settlers | Daniel Rhodes | 1937 | oil on canvas | ||
| Hamilton | On the River | Edmund Lewandowski | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Herrin | George Rogers Clark Conferring with Indians near Herrin, Illinois | Gustaf Dalstrom | 1940 | oil on canvas; destroyed[6] | ||
| Lemont | Canal Boats | Charles Turzak | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Lewistown | Lewistown Milestones | Ida Abelman | 1941 | tempera | ||
| Madison | Assimilation and Immigration into Industrial Life of Madison | A. Raymond Katz | 1940 | oil and tempera on canvas | ||
| Marseilles | Industrial Marseilles | ![](#/media/File:"Industrial_Marseilles"_by_Avery_Johnson_(1938).JPG) |
Avery F. Johnson | 1938 | oil on canvas, restored in 2005 | |
| Marshall | Harvest | Miriam McKinnie | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| McLeansboro | The First Mail Flight |  |
Dorothea Mierisch | 1941 | oil on canvas | |
| Melrose Park | Airmail |  |
Edwin Boyd Johnson | 1937 | fresco | |
| Moline | Ploughshare Manufacturing | Edward Millman | 1937 | egg tempera on gesso | ||
| Mount Carroll | Rural Scene – Wakarusa Valley |  |
Irene Bianucci | 1941 | oil on canvas | |
| Mount Morris | The Growth of Mount Morris | Dale Nichols | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Mount Sterling | The Covered Bridge | Henry Bernstein | 1941 | tempera | ||
| Naperville | George Martin's Home Overlooking Old Naper Hill | Rainey Bennett[7] | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Nashville | Barnyard | Zoltan Seeshy | 1942 | tempera on wallboard | ||
| Normal | Development of the State Normal School | ![](#/media/File:Normal,_IL_Post_Office_mural,_"Development_of_the_State_Normal_School"_by_Albert_Pels.jpg) |
Albert Pels | 1938 | oil on canvas | |
| Oak Park | The Founding of Fort Crevecoeur |  |
J. Theodore Johnson | 1939 | oil on canvas | |
| La Salle's Search for Tonti, 1680 |  | |||||
| The Pioneer of 1848 |  | |||||
| The Osceola – The First Shipment of Wheat from Chicago, 1839 |  | |||||
| O'Fallon | John Mason Peck, First Postmaster, Handing Out Mail, 1830 | Merlin F. Pollack | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Oglesby | The Illini and Potawatomies Struggle at Starved Rock |  |
Fay E. Davis | 1942 | oil on canvas | |
| Oregon | Pioneer and Democracy | David Cheskin | 1940 | tempera | ||
| Petersburg | Lincoln at New Salem, Illinois | John Winters | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Pittsfield | Riverboat and Bridge | William Schwartz (artist) | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Rushville | Hart Fellows – Builder of Rushville | _1962.8.12_1a.jpg) |
Rainey Bennett[7] | 1940 | oil on canvas | |
| Salem | Lincoln as Postmaster in New Salem | Vladimir Rousseff | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Shelbyville | Shelby County Fair-1900 |  |
Lucia Wiley | 1941 | fresco | |
| Staunton | Going to Work | Ralf Hendricksen | 1941 | oil on canvas | ||
| Tuscola | The Old Days |  |
Edwin Boyd Johnson | 1941 | oil on canvas | |
| Vandalia | Old State Capitol Building | Aaron Bohrod | 1936 | oil on canvas | ||
| Virden | Illinois Pastoral | James Daugherty | 1939 | tempera and oil | ||
| Wilmette | In the Soil is Our Wealth | Raymond Breinin | 1938 | oil on canvas | ||
| Wood River | Stagecoach and Mail | Archibald Motley, Jr. | 1937 | oil on canvas |