List of United States post office murals in Mississippi
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Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Mississippi between 1934 and 1943.[1][2]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amory | Amory, Mississippi, 1889 | John McCrady | 1939 | A panoramic view of Amory's main street in 1889 | 1988 | |
| Batesville | Cotton Plantation | Eve Kottgen | 1942 | |||
| Bay St. Louis | Life on the Coast | Louis Raynaud | 1938 | |||
| Old Post Office, Booneville | Scenic and Historic Booneville | Stefan Hirsch | 1943 | oil on canvas; completed under the Treasury Bureau's Section of Fine Arts program at the cost of $750. The Old Post Office is in the NRHP-listed Downtown Booneville Historic District.[4] | 1998 | |
| Carthage | Lumbermen Rolling a Log | Peter Dalton | 1938 | 1983 | ||
| Columbus | Out of Soil | Beulah Bettersworth | 1940 | oil on canvas | 1983 | |
| Crystal Springs | Harvest | Henry La Cagnina | 1943 | 1993 | ||
| Durant | Erosion, Reclamation and Conservation of the Soil | Isadore Tuberoff | 1942 | |||
| Eupora | Cotton Farm | Thomas Savage | 1945 | |||
| Forest | Forest Logger | Julien Binford | 1941 | 1993 | ||
| Hazelhurst | Life in the Mississippi Cotton Belt | Auriel Bessemer | 1939 | |||
| Houston | Post Near Houston, Natchez, 1803 | Byron Burford Jr. | 1941 | |||
| Indianola | White Gold in the Delta |  |
Beulah Bettersworth | 1939 | destroyed in the 1960s | |
| Jackson | Pursuits of Life in Mississippi | Simka Simkhovitch | 1938 | in the James O. Eastland United States Courthouse[5] | ||
| Leland | Ginnin' Cotton | .jpg) |
Stuart R. Purser | 1940 | tempera; winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1983 |
| Louisville | Crossroads | Karl Wolfe | 1938 | |||
| Macon | Signing of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek | S. Douglass Crockwell | 1944 | |||
| Magnolia | Cotton Harvest | John H. Fyfe | 1939 | 1993 | ||
| July 4 Celebration at Sheriff Bacof's | ||||||
| Magnolia in 1889 | ||||||
| New Albany | Milking Time | Roger Cleaver Purdy | 1939 | |||
| Newton | Economic Life in Newton in the Earl 1940s | Mary Boggs | 1942 | oil on canvas | ||
| Okolona | The Richness of the Soil | Harold Egan | 1939 | painted over within days of completion | ||
| Pascagoula | Legend of the Singing River | Lorin Thompson | 1939 | damaged in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina | ||
| Picayune | Lumber Region of Mississippi | Donald H. Robertson | 1940 | |||
| Pontotoc | The Wedding of Ortez and SaOuana – Christmas, 1540 | Joseph Pollet | 1939 | oil on canvas | ||
| Tylertown | Rural Mississippi – from Early Days to Present | _SAAM-1985.8.1_1.jpg) |
Lucile Blanch | 1941 | tempera | |
| Vicksburg | Vicksburg, Its Character and Industries |  |
Henriette A. Oberteuffer | 1939 | oil on canvas;[6] former U.S. Post Office and Courthouse now privately owned[7][8] | |
| Waynesboro | Waynesboro Landscape | Ross E. Braught | 1942 | oil on canvas |