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Government Printing Office Workers

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Year
  
1937

Artist
  
Eliot Means

Type
  
sculpture

Created
  
1937

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Location
  
G Street, Washington, D.C.

Owner
  
General Services Administration

The Government Printing Office Workers is a series of three relief sculptures, located at the Government Printing Office Building, North Capitol Street, and G Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C..

Design

The panels are installed on the third floor of the north side of the building. The left panel shows a standing figure operating a printing press, with rollers, and the right panel shows a standing male figure unloading rolls of paper. They are by Elliott Means. The center panel shows an eagle surmounting the Government Printing Office seal, and is by Armin A. Scheler.

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Government Printing Office Workers Wikipedia