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Biographical NoteClarence (Cal) Nicholas Peters was born April 20, 1903 in Port Washington, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. He was the son of Emil J. and Mary E. Felts Peters. He received instruction at the Chicago Art Institute. He married Helen Marie Hall, who was born in Iowa on April 18, 1905. In 1935 Peters was one of several artists at the Stout Institute in Menominee, Wisconsin (now a State university) employed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). While there, he painted murals and about a dozen portraits. In 1936, again funded by the WPA, Peters painted a mural of Truax Field, in Madison, Wisconsin. From 1938-1948 he continued his work for the WPA in Prarier du Chien, Wisconsin where he created numerous murals and dioramas. In 1949 he left Prairie du Chien to bcome the Curator of History at the Los Angeles County Museum. While in the West, he created other murals, paintings, and dioramas, some of which are now part of the collection of the Postal History Foundation. The Western Postal History Museum (now the Postal History Foundation) commissioned him to paint five oil paintings and to create four dioramas on various aspects of postal history in Arizona. His work is carefully researched and represents actual events in the State's history. The paintings hang in the Peggy J. Slusser Memorial Philatelic Library and the dioramas are on semi-permanent loan to the Arizona Historical Society at their Tucson and Yuma locations. RestrictionsConditions Governing Access
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It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Postal History Foundation, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Related MaterialHistory of the Postal History Foundation Collection. Access TermsSubject(s) Air mail service--Arizona. Apache Indians--Arizona. Camels--United States--History. Massacres--Wickenburg Region (Ariz.)--History. Mohave Indians--Arizona. Mule train mail. Peters, Clarence Nicholas, 1903-1984. Postal History Foundation. Train robberies--Arizona. Western Postal History Museum (Tucson, Ariz.) Administrative InformationPreferred Citation
Cal Peters Collection. Postal History Foundation. Tucson, Arizona. Processing Information
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