DATE: Thursday, 2022 Aug 18 TIME: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM LOCATION: Holly History and Genealogy Center TOPIC: Wisconsin Post Office Murals In June 1939, Waupaca welcomed the opening of the first federally owned post office in the city. The post office was built through the Public Works Administration and, by 1940, a mural was […]
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Midwest Independent Publishers Association Finalist 2019 Book Awards
2019 Midwest Book Award Finalist, Wisconsin Post Office Murals by David W. Gates Jr. Wisconsin Post Office Murals
The Author Show.com Interview with David W. Gates Jr.
Super excited to be on The Author Show. Scheduled for Monday August 31, 2020
30th Annual Midwest Book Awards – Certificate of Literary Excellence
30th Annual Midwest Book Awards Gala! – Virtual Gathering
June 27, 2020 We are please to announce Wisconsin Post Office Murals is a finalist in the 30th Annual Midwest Book Awards – History – Regional category. The Midwest Book Awards ceremony on June 27th recognize books published in 2019. MIPA will be hosing a virtual even on June 27th to announce the winners. Congratulations […]
Wisconsin Post Office Murals
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT commissioned over 1,100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Wisconsin received 35 of these murals. After nearly 85 years, the story of their existence is elusive and often overlooked. Gates’s research of the correspondence between the artists and government tells of how the murals were developed and eventually installed […]
