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Mural in the Harry S. Truman Federal Building which is the headquarters of the Department of State

  • Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.
  • Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer.
  • The mural, titled Defense of Human Freedoms, was painted by Kindred McLeary. The building was designed by architects, Gilbert Stanley Underwood and William Dewey Foster of Harley, Probst Associates. Its first building phase was completed in 1941, and its addition was completed later in 1960.
  • Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
  • Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:143).
  • Forms part of: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
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Author
Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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Kindred McLeary's 1942 fresco "The Defense of Human Freedoms", commissioned by the Section of Painting and Sculpture for the War Department Building

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