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A photo of buckwheat, a traditional Appalachian crop, growing in stony soil.

A photo of three men and one boy living in Garrett County, MD, during the Great Depression.

A man works a buckwheat field in Garrett County, MD.

Photo shows artist Robert Gates with a large print of his mural commissioned for the Bethesda, MD post office.

A photo from the Evening Star, a Washington, DC newspaper, showing Robert Gates' first completed mural in the Bethesda, MD post office. Gates is far left, with Edward Bruce, Secretary Advisory Committee on Fine Arts, to the right.

A letter from Edward Bruce, Secretary of the Advisory Committee to Treasury on Fine Arts, to artist Robert Gates. Bruce clarifies that the program is not exclusively a 'relief measure' but also a program to build art as an integral part of American…

An editorial for the Washington Daily News by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She writes of attending an exhibition of watercolors, some of which were West Virginia landscapes, by Olin Dows and Robert Gates. Mrs. Roosevelt pondered "a certain grimness"…

A clipping from an unnamed Oakland newspaper notifying the public about the upcoming construction of a new post office building.

A letter from the Oakland, MD Postmaster to the Federal Works Agency, notifying the Agency of the successful and satisfactory installation of Robert Gates' mural in the post office.

A letter from artist Robert Gates to Edward Rowan, Assistant Chief Section of Fine Arts, in response to the invitation to submit mural designs for the Oakland, MD post office. Gates notes that the area is familiar to him and he enjoys painting that…