Focus on Dangers of the Mail and analyze the History.
The mural was commissioned through the Section of Fine Arts in 1935 in a New Deal art project designed to incorporate large works of art in the building. The mural was one of several specified to be "Romantic Subject Matter in the History of the Post" commissioned for the newly constructed headquarters of the Post Office Department.Frank Mechau was recruited for the program by Edward Rowan, then assistant director of the section. Dangers of the Mail was completed in 1937, installed on the fifth floor of the Post Office Department Building, and unveiled in September.
New Deal Section of Fine Arts Frank Mechau mural