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The Buffalo Courier-Express Mural: A 90-Year Journey

By Tom Reigstad - July 22, 2020

Commissioned for the opening of the new Courier-Express Building in 1930, the mural painted by Charles Bigelow and Ernest Davenport is a significant piece of Buffalo's rich journalistic and artistic history.

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