Wednesday, November 7, 2012

WPA Mural Painted by Elsa Jemne for the Historic Brandon Auditorium


 Brandon MN   This WPA mural depicts a stagecoach way station established in the 1850's when the government built a road to Fort Abercrombie on the Red River Trail.  The mural also depicts a stagecoach and Indians in canoes.  In the lower picture the artist Elsa Jemne, is looking at the mural which she painted for the new Brandon Auditorium in 1936.

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