Rhinebeck Post Office Mural: General Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston plant locust seedlings. Panel 6b 1776. A Tory is relieved of his gun while men take the Revolutionary Pledge and drill

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Title	Rhinebeck Post Office Mural: General Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston plant locust seedlings. Panel 6b 1776. A Tory is relieved of his gun while men take the Revolutionary Pledge and drill
Creator	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Date.Original	1940
Contributors	Mural commissioned for Rhinebeck, NY post office by WPA Section of Fine Arts Art in Public Buildings Program, photographed ny C.B. Ross and Edward Campeau
Publisher.Original	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Description	Scene from history of Rhinebeck ca. 1774. "General Richard Montgomery and his wife, Janet Livingston, plant locust seedlings on what will become the lawn of "Grasmere." The bricks were baked in a home-made kiln. An ox tramples clay near an 18th-century cottage on the south Post Road. General Montgomery was killed leading the assault at Quebec in 1775. His widow completed the house and lived there till 1803, later selling it to her sister, and building Montgomery Place at Annandale." Also in this panel: "A Tory is relieved of his gun while men take the Revolutionary Pledge and drill." (From: "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office, 1940")
Subject.LCSH	Rhinebeck (N.Y.),Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Rhinebeck (N.Y. : Town), Village communities Local history--New York (State)
Subject.TGM	Summer Bricklayers Bricklaying Conversation Villages Militias Militia movements
Subject.AAT	murals
Personal Name	Montgomery, Janet (Livingston), 1743-1828 Montgomery, Richard, 1738-1775
Corporate Name	Rhinebeck Post Office
Location	Rhinebeck (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Work & Labor Landscape & Nature People Daily Life Community & Events Women
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.026
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2012
Format.Digital	image/tiff
Digital.Collection	Bard College Dows
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Archives.
Technical Data	Original photographs scanned using Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner

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Rhinebeck Post Office Mural: General Richard Montgomery and Janet Livingston plant locust seedlings. Panel 6b 1776. A Tory is relieved of his gun while men take the Revolutionary Pledge and drill

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