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Artist
Doris Lee  (1905–1983)  wikidata:Q518922
 
Alternative names
Doris Emrick Lee
Description American painter and artist
American folk artist
Date of birth/death 1 February 1905 Edit this at Wikidata 16 June 1983 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Aledo Edit this at Wikidata Clearwater Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q518922
Author
Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
Work location
United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5044454
Description
Photograph of mural "General store and post office" by Doris Lee at the Ariel Rios Federal Building, Washington, D.C.
Date September 2011
Medium 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Accession number
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-24943 (original digital file)
  • Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 24943 (ONLINE) [P&P]
Notes
  • Date: 1938; dimensions: 6' x 13' 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, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
  • Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:083).
  • Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Mural information from the General Services Administration:

Until the turn of the twentieth century, the general store often functioned as a post office for rural communities. Even after the Post Office Department instituted Rural Free Delivery, the general store remained a cornerstone of the community and a hub of communication. In General Store and Post Office, Lee shows the store's behind-the-scenes workings on the left, while on the right she depicts the front of the store bustling with activity: a woman arrives at the postal window with her young daughter, who gestures towards a reward notice for the capture of a wanted criminal; behind them, a young woman waits to mail a letter; the aproned man at the counter sells various sundries; and to the right, a young farmer reads aloud to his neighbors from a newspaper sporting the headline "Farmers Organize." The open door at the far right reveals a gasoline pump, which at the time was still a fairly recent invention, just thirty years old, and alludes to the increased mobility of rural Americans during the 1930s.
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID highsm.24943.
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This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

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This image is a work of a Works Progress Administration employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain (17 U.S.C. §§ 101 and 105).

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