Following is a list of United States post office murals created in Kansas between 1934 and 1943. [1] [2] A number of Kansas post offices were listed on the National Register on basis of their murals, as part of a study of "Kansas Post Offices with Artwork, 1936-1942". [3]
| Location | Mural title | Image | Artist | Date | Notes | NRHP listed [4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony United States Post Office, Anthony | Turning a Corner | Joe Jones | 1939 | Oil on canvas mural shows three farmers using a combine to thresh wheat. [5] | 1989 | |
| Augusta | A Kansas Gusher | Donald Silks | 1940 | 1989 | ||
| Belleville | Kansas Stream | Birger Sandzen | 1939 | 1989 | ||
| Caldwell United States Post Office, Caldwell | Cowboys Driving Cattle | | Kenneth Evett | 1941 | tempera [6] | 1989 |
| Council Grove | Autumn Colors | Charles B. Rogers | 1941 | 1989 | ||
| Eureka | Cattle Roundup | | Vance Kirkland | 1938 | 1989 | |
| Fort Scott | Border Gateways | | Oscar E. Berninghaus | 1937 | ||
| Goodland | Rural Free Delivery | Kenneth Miller Adams | 1937 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
| Halstead | Where Kit Carson Camped | Birger Sandzen | 1941 | 1989 | ||
| Herington | Arrival of the First Train in Herington – 1885 | | H. Louis Freund | 1937 | ||
| Hoisington | Wheat Center | | Dorothea Tomlinson | 1938 | ||
| Horton | Picnic in Kansas | | Kenneth Evett | 1938 | 1989 | |
| Changing of Horses for the Pony Express | 1939 | |||||
| Hutchinson | Threshing in Kansas | Lumen Martin Winter | 1942 | 1989 | ||
| Kingman | In the Days of the cattleman's Picnic | Jessie S. Wilber | 1942 | fresco tempera on plaster | 1989 | |
| United States Post Office–Lindsborg, in Lindsborg | Smoky River | Birger Sandzen | 1938 | oil on canvas | 1989 | |
| Neodesha United States Post Office, Neodesha | Neodesha's First Inhabitants | Bernard J. Steffen | 1938 | Tempura on pressed wood board "that depicts the friendly relations between the Osage Indians of southeastern Kansas and the early white settlers. On the right side of the canvas Osage Chief Little Bear waves to Dr. T. Blakeslee, a physician responsible for much of the peacefulness between the two cultures." [7] | 1989 | |
| Olathe | The Mail Must Go Through | Albert T. Reid | 1940 | moved to Olathe Public Library | ||
| Oswego United States Post Office, Oswego | Farm Life | Robert E. Larter | 1940 | tempera on canvas [8] | 1989 | |
| Russell | Wheat Workers | Martyl Schweig | 1940 | a harvest scene in a regional social realistic style | 1989 | |
| Sabetha | The Hare and the Tortoise | Albert T. Reid | 1937 | 1989 | ||
| Seneca | Men and Wheat | | Joe Jones | 1940 | Winner of the 48-State Mural Competition | 1989 |
| Wichita | Kansas Farming | | Richard Haines | 1936 | United States Post Office and Federal Building (Wichita, Kansas) | |
| Pioneers in Kansas | | Ward Lockwood | 1936 |