Mary Earley made two post office murals: Down-Rent War, Around 1845 (Delhi, New York) and Dance of the Hop Pickers (Middleburgh, New York).
The Down-Rent War, also known as the Anti-Rent War, took place when tenant farmers were a little bit sick of being fleeced by the wealthy men to whom they paid rent and other fees. If you didn’t know that part of the US once operated under a feudal sort of arrangement known as a Manor System, you should check it out. One might say that, given the popularity of corporate landowners these days, we are nearing a sort of system like that again. There are, of course, a lot of differences, but the fundamentals are troublingly similar.