Eagles RELIGION tourney Saturday Faith community news continues ...................................Page 3 .............Page 6 Nov. 29, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Sunday: Mostly sunny H 71º L 38º Monday: Sunny with 7 58551 69301 0 patchy clouds H 66º L 40º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 150 Number 234 email:
[email protected] Ukiah’s vintage signs: Part II By DANIEL LAZARUS For the Daily Journal Editor’s note: Today we present Part II of our Top 10 list of great local signs from the times past. Ukiah Post Office Mural The Ukiah Post Office, at its current location on Oak Street, was constructed in 1936. Two years later, in 1938, the oil-on-canvas mural on the wall over the Postmaster’s office door was executed by Ben Frazier Cunningham (1904-1975). It is entitled, “Resources of the Soil,” and a smaller study for the mural, which the Nevada artist painted in preparation for the post office wall, hangs in the Smithsonian in Washington. While it is commonly assumed that post office murals from the Depression era were a product of the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A), most - including this one - were actually created by artists working for the Treasury Department’s Section of Fine Arts. “The Section,” as it came to be known, was not a relief program. Their mandate was to com- mission high quality art for newly constructed U.S. Post Offices and Courthouses, and in so doing, make that art accessible to all people in a democratic way.