Mural-Ariel-Rios-Marsh-1

{{en|1=Photograph of mural "Sorting the Mail" by Reginald Marsh at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C. Notes: * Date: 1936; dimensions: 6' 7" x 12' 6". * Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. * Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. * Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,. * Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083). * Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. More information at The Living New Deal Mural information from the General Services Administration: Like Alfred D. Crimi, whose murals are located on the same floor of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, Marsh chose to depict the activities of the urban mailroom. Also like Crimi, Marsh made on-site preparatory sketches. He studied the railway mail service located under old Penn Station in New York, as well as the New York post office department building, observing the modern machinery, interviewing postal workers, and making sketches as they unloaded and transferred mail cargo. Marsh's depiction differs, though, from the eas

Date

2011-09

Collection

Carol M. Highsmith Archive

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

4,356 × 2,280 pixels

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