Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Hay Making
Image | 1941-1942 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesigns submitted in War Department Building competition, completed for a fee of $800.
Pride of Cambridge City
Image | 1941 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesigns submitted in Social Security Building Administration, for a fee of $750.
Building the Industrial Foundation of Batesville
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view.
Rural Mail Carrier
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work executed under Treasury Department Art Projects, completed for a fee of $670.
Federal Building at Chicago
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Federal Building at Chicago: Begun in 1896, completed in 1905"
Post office overhead carrier system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Overhead carrier system in the post-office, similar to cash carriers used in stores."
The Arrival of the Mail in Culver
Image | 1937-1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionWon second place in a Lafayette competition, for a fee of $500.
Rural Delivery and Sad News
Image | 1935-1936 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionWon Lafeyette competition, completed for a fee of $700.
Landscape
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in Interior Department competition, completed for a fee of $670.
Country Cousins
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work executed under the Treasury Department Art projects, completed for a fee of $570.
Early Hobart
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDone under the Treasury Department Art Projects for a fee of $580.
Indiana Farming Scene in Late Autumn
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionWon a regional award for post offices in Jasper, IN and Detroit, MI, completed for a fee of $650.
Loggers
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionRunner up in Jasper, Indiana/East Detroit, MI competition, completed for a fee of $560.
Indiana Farm-Sunday Afternoon
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work executed under Treasury Department Art Projects, completed for a fee of $540.
Early Middlebury Mail
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work performed for the Section of Painting and Sculpture, completed for a fee of $670.
Underground tunnel railway
Image | 1903 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The first mail arriving at the Post Office station of the Chicago subway or underground railroad, March 10, 1903."
U.S. Post Office
Image | 1996 | Champaign-Urbana Historic Built EnvironmentShows a portion of the east side of the structure.
From Such Beginnings Sprang the County of Lake, Indiana
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work executed under the Treasury Department Art Projects for a fee of $610.
The Corn School
Image | 1941 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent design submitted in 48 state competition, completed for a fee of $750.
Trek of the Covered Wagons to Indiana
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in the Decatur, IL competition for a fee of $350.
Untitled
Image | 1960-1979 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view.
Waiting for the Mail
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent design in Louisville, Kentucky competition, completed for a fee of $520.
Mail-Transportation and Delivery and Early and Present Day Indianapolis Life
Image | 1935-1936 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionMaster artist (Grant Christian) paid $186/month, assistant (Reynolds Selfridge) paid $93/month.
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "End of the big pneumatic tube system in the basement of the Chicago Post Office." From text: "The underground pneumatic tube system is the largest of the kind in the world. There are three double-tube trunk lines, aggregating over eighteen miles of eight-inch cast iron pipe. Of these lines the stockyards branch is the longest, the station being six and one-half mil...
Post Office
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Post Office The new Post Office Building, one of the most magnificent postal structures in the United States, is located in a square formed by Adams, Clark and Dearborn streets and Jackson Boulevard. The delay in its completion caused many spirited controversies. From this great central station radiate forty-seven carrier stations, four stations without carrier...
New post office site
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago's recommended new post office site, new Union Terminal to the left, Northwestern Depot to the right. The Chicago Plan Commission has not recommended a type for the new Chicago postal structure. The above is merely a suggested type to occupy the two blocks recommended on Canal Street between the present Northwestern terminal and the Union Station now under c...
Indiana Farming
Image | 1937 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionSketch for Rochester, MN competition, completed for a fee of $700.
Mail-Transportation and Delivery and Early and Present Day Indianapolis Life
Image | 1935-1936 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionMaster artist (Grant Christian) paid $186/month, assistant (Reynolds Selfridge) paid $93/month.
Boonville Beginnings
Image | 1941 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent work performed under the section for an $800 fee.
The Arrival of the Mail
Image | 1936-1937 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionSketches submitted for Justice Department competition, completed for a fee of $610.
Suburban Street
Image | 1941-1942 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted for the St. Louis, Missouri competition, completed for a fee of $860.
Indiana Agriculture
Image | 1942 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in Harrisonville, VA competition, for a fee of $1,000.
Receiving the Mail on the Farm
Image | 1938-1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in Interior Department competition, completed for a fee of $670.
Cutting Timber
Image | 1940 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in a St. Louis, MO competition, completed for a fee of $1,000.
Gas City in Boom Days
Image | 1939 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionDesign submitted in a Barnesville, OH competition, completed for a fee of $670.
Federal Building
Image | 1930 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Federal Building, at Clark, Adams, Dearborn, and Jackson, is a massive eight-story structure, in Roman Corinthian style, of granite, surmounted by a majestic dome 297 feet high
Hoosier Farm
Image | 1937 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCompetent design submitted in the Cleveland competition for a fee of $550.
Clearing the Right of Way
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionFor a fee of $530.
Down to the Ferry
Image | 1938 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionExecuted under the Treasury Department Arts Project for a fee of $915.
Harvesting
Image | 1940 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching Collection48 state mural competition winner, completed for a fee of $720.

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