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Anton Refregier: History of San Francisco mural "Beating the Chinese" by at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California
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History of San Francisco mural "Beating the Chinese" by at Rincon Annex Post Office located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-20872 (original digital file)
Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 20872 (ONLINE) [P&P]
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Title devised by Library staff based on information provided by the photographer.
Mural title and artist name from San Francisco Mural Arts website, 2013.
Date and keywords provided by the photographer.
The Rincon Annex Post Office was the last great WPA project.
Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation in memory of Jon B. Lovelace; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:063).
Forms part of: Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Located near the Embarcadero at 101 Spear Street near Mission, the Rincon Annex Post Office was the last great WPA project. The original theme was to be a cycle of twenty-four murals showing San Francisco's history. Anton Refreigier, a Russian immigrant from Woodstock, New York, won the competition. He came to San Francisco and quickly familiarized himself with the history of the city. The Second World War broke out during the course of the project, and production was stopped on the mural, only to be completed after the war. The initial concept was to end the cycle with 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island, but given recent events, Refreiger decided to extend the series to twenty-nine panels. He ended the project with the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge, the war, and finally with the creation of the United Nations in San Francisco.
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