Administered by United States General Services Administration Washington District of Columbia
Administered by United States General Services Administration 515 Murray Alexandria Louisiana 71301
Located United States Post Office/Federal Courthouse Facade, above entrances Alexandria Louisiana
Date:
1933
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, Louisiana survey, 1996.
Summary:
Five reliefs representing the five modes of U.S. mail transportation up until the time they were sculpted. Included are, from left to right: The Courier (two figures, one standing, one seated in a self-propelled boat); The Mail Stage (a stagecoach, driver and team of horses); The Mail Boat (a steamboat with bales of cotton on its lower deck, and two smoke stacks with a sign between them reading "Bell of Red River); The Mail Train (a steam locomotive); and The Mail Plane (a single propeller biplane). Each relief has its title incised below it. The reliefs are mounted on decorated grillwork in front of windows, set above entrances on the facade of a post office and courthouse.
