DescriptionMcLeary War Department Building mural.jpg
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.
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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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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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23 February 2016
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Canon EOS 5DS R
exposure time
3.2 second
f-number
10
focal length
15 millimetre
ISO speed
100
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