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"Settlers in Collingsworth County"
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Photo (detail): Darrell Colson
 
"Settlers in Collingsworth County"
1940
Wellington Post office
Mural, tempera and oil
Program: Treasury Section of Fine Arts
Location: Lobby
The artist wrote that he wanted to "show settlers on the Texas Plains engaged in fundamental activities of opening and using new land: building shelter, sowing, planting."