Construction-PWA, Beverly Hills, 1936

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Construction-PWA interior mural at the Beverly Hills Post Office, 1936, by Charles Kassler, Jr. The six-panel mural shows workers high atop a construction site and then standing in line to collect from the "PWA Paymaster". The whole effect is optimistic, though, with workers in the last panel gathering at the street fruit market to spend their hard-won wages. PWA stands for the Public Works Administration. It was a federal jobs program. Sponsored by Treasury Relief Project. Fresco, 6 lunettes -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p.173, #3

Asset Metadata

Title Construction-PWA, Beverly Hills, 1936

Creator Dunitz, Robin J. (photographer), Kassler, Charles, Jr. (artist)

Contributor Treasury Relief Project (sponsor)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1936

Subject Construction workers (lcsh), Mural painting and decoration (lcsh), New Deal, 1933-1939 (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place 469 Crescent Drive (roadways), Beverly Hills (populated places), Beverly Hills Post Office (post office buildings), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1936

Type images

Format 1 slide (extent), 2 x 2 in. (dimensions), color (color), color slides (aat), slides (photographs) (aat)

Source Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Dunitz, Robin J. Street Gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1993 (book), Dunitz, Robin J. Street gallery: a guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Rev. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: RJD Enterprises, c1998 (book)

Repository Email afa@usc.edu

Repository Name USC Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library

Repository Location Watt Hall 4d, USC, Los Angeles, California, 90089-0294, USA

Rights Dunitz, Robin J.

Access Conditions The images are accessible for fair use. However, muralists retain all rights to their work, and Robin Dunitz retains copyright for the images. Any requests for permission to reproduce the images must be directed to: Robin Dunitz, rjdunitz@comcast.net. The files represent Ms. Dunitz' personal collection of materials collected over the years of her involvement in documenting and preserving Los Angeles murals. They are available for consultation in the Helen Topping Architecture and Fine Arts Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/dunitz-c15-751

Identifier dunitz-0733.tif (filename), dunitz-0733 (identifying number), dunitz-c15-751 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 751

Unique identifier UC1603981

Legacy Identifier dunitz-0733

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 12.5 in at 300dpi
46.7 cm × 31.8 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Robin Dunitz Slides of Los Angeles Murals, 1925-2002

Description The collection consists of more than 2,000 digitized 35mm slides of murals in Los Angeles photographed by Robin Dunitz. The murals date from 1925 to the early 2000s and were photographed by Dunitz in the late 1980s and early-mid 1990s to early 2000s.

Relation References https://libguides.usc.edu/dunitz_murals (finding aid URL)

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