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Articles

 Lewis, Margaret. “The Great Depression in Greenbrier County.” The Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society 6, no. 6 (1998): 53-64.

Raynor, Patricia. “New Deal Post Office Murals.” Enroute 6, no. 4 (October-December 1997). Link.

Swope, Kenneth, and Frances Swope. “The Lewisburg Post Office.” The Journal of the Greenbrier Historical Society 4, no. 1 (1981): 91-93.

Books

Carlisle, John C. A Simple and Vital Design: the Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1995.

Kennedy, Roger G. When Art Worked. New York: Rizzoli, 2009.

Marling, Karal Ann. Wall-to-wall America: Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000.

O'Connor, Francis V., ed. Art for the Millions: Essays from the 1930s by Artists and Administrators of the Wpa Federal Art Project. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1975.

Parisi, Philip. The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Saab, A. Joan. For the Millions: American Art and Culture between the Wars (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Taylor, Nick. American-Made: the Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work. New York: Bantam, 2009.

Thomas, Jerry Bruce. An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression. Pbk. ed. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2010.

(editors), Richard Walsh and William Lloyd Fox. Maryland: a History 1632-1974. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1974.

Websites

“The Living New Deal.” https://livingnewdeal.org/

"The Great Depression." Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/great-depression/exhibitions.html