{"id":29127,"date":"2025-11-02T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=29127"},"modified":"2025-11-02T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T10:28:41","slug":"violet-oakleys-mural-studies-for-the-pennsylvania-senate-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/violet-oakleys-mural-studies-for-the-pennsylvania-senate-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Violet Oakley\u2019s Mural Studies for the Pennsylvania Senate Chamber."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Deusqd5smcA?si=ZQphB0aJqCy8aPyr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (4:50): This video &#8211; produced by The State Museum and Commonwealth Media Services &#8211; features excerpts of an audio recording of her remembrances of her &#8220;Unity&#8221; mural in the Senate Chamber in her own voice, from the collections of the Pennsylvania State Archives.<\/p>\n<p>From The State Museum exhibition &#8220;Picturing a More Perfect Union: Violet Oakley\u2019s Mural Studies for the Pennsylvania Senate Chamber, 1911-1919.&#8221;  On May 21, 1955, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Violet_Oakley\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Violet Oakley<\/a> returned to the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building to tour her murals in the Governor\u2019s Reception Room, the Supreme Court, and the Senate Chamber.  This video &#8211; produced by The State Museum and Commonwealth Media Services &#8211; features excerpts of an audio recording of her remembrances of her &#8220;Unity&#8221; mural in the Senate Chamber in her own voice, from the collections of the Pennsylvania State Archives.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (4:50):  violet Oakley&#8217;s remembrances of her &#8220;Unity&#8221; mural in the Senate Chamber in her own voice, from the collections of the Pennsylvania State Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1466,19],"tags":[1737],"class_list":["post-29127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-talk","category-northeastern-united-states","category-painting","tag-violet-oakley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29129,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions\/29129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}