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Historical Preservation

The image above is a detail of the

1940 WPA Mural by Harold Carpenter called Kingdom of Smoke

located in the stairwell of the Ross Avenue Wilkinsburg Borough Building.

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Senior Conservator Rikke Foulke to the left, is cleaning and repairing the mural from the scaffold
 

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Conservator Nancy Boomhower is preparing 2 of the 18 artifacts in Wilkinsburg's Civil War Collection

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