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(Five Metal Relief Sculptures of U.S. Mail Transportation), (sculpture). Artist:  Unknown, sculptor. Title:  (Five Metal Relief Sculptures of U.S. Mail Transportation), (sculpture). Dates:  1933. Medium:  Metal. Dimensions:  5 reliefs. Description:  Five reliefs representing the five modes of U.S. mail transportation up until the time they were sculpted. Included are, from left to right: The Courier (two figures, one standing, one seated in a self-propelled boat); The Mail Stage (a stagecoach, driver and team of horses); The Mail Boat (a steamboat with bales of cotton on its lower deck, and two smoke stacks with a sign between them reading "Bell of Red River); The Mail Train (a steam locomotive); and The Mail Plane (a single propeller biplane). Each relief has its title incised below it. The reliefs are mounted on decorated grillwork in front of windows, set above entrances on the facade of a post office and courthouse. Subject:  Figure group Occupation -- Service -- Postman Allegory -- Arts & Sciences -- Transportation Architecture -- Vehicle -- Carriage Architecture -- Boat -- Riverboat Architecture -- Boat -- Belle of Red River Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train Architecture -- Vehicle -- Airplane Animal -- Horse Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Louisiana -- Alexandria Architectural component Relief Sculpture Owner:  Administered by United States General Services Administration, Washington, District of Columbia Administered by United States General Services Administration, 515 Murray, Alexandria, Louisiana 71301 Located United States Post Office/Federal Courthouse, Facade, above entrances, Alexandria, Louisiana References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Louisiana survey, 1996. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS LA000432   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture LA000432 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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