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Vernon Carlock Post Office Sculpture is a picture, with genre photograph, physical object and sculpture.
It was created in 1939.
Worthington Libraries is the Contributor. Vernon Carlock is the Sculptor.
Pictured is the “Scioto Company Settlers” sculpted mural that hangs in the Worthington Post Office on the corner of High Street and Short Street. The 4’x 3’ terra-cotta relief depicts a Worthington settler standing under a buckeye tree with a pair of yoked oxen. Vernon T. Carlock sculpted the piece in 1939 for the town’s new post office, which opened its doors the previous year in response to Worthington’s growing population and its need for a formal free mail delivery service.
The US Treasury Department supported the piece as part of the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA)’s effort to provide relief during the Great Depression by commissioning public work. The effort employed over 8.5 million people, giving them the opportunities to create art, help in schools, or build roads, bridges and other structures benefiting the public. Carlock’s sculpted mural was one of 66 WPA pieces that were placed in post offices around Ohio.
It covers the topics sculpture and art.
It features the organization Worthington Post Office.
It covers the city Worthington. It covers the area Old Worthington.
You can find the original at Worthington Libraries.
This file was born digital in the format video/jpeg.
The Worthington Memory identification code is wpl0464_001.
This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on December 12, 2019. It was last updated August 28, 2020.