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Title	Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Unloading Goods at Stoutenburgh's Landing, ca. 1795
Creator	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Date.Original	1940
Contributors	Mural commissioned for Hyde Park, NY post office by WPA Section of Fine Arts Art in Public Buildings Program, photographed by C.B. Ross and Edward Campeau
Publisher.Original	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Description	From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office:" "About 1795. Richard De Cantillon, Tobias Stoutenburgh's son-in-law, supervises workmen unloading rum, sugar and molasses from one of his West India trading packets. His landing, site of the present station, was a most active and prosperous enterprise. A man and woman mend shad nets-- logs are poled to shore for the saw mill-- a hay boat is loaded."
Subject.LCSH	Hyde Park (Dutchess County, N.Y.) Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) River boats--Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) Rivers--New York (State)--Dutchess Co. Village communities Water supply
Subject.TGM	Fishermen Fishing & hunting gear Fishing nets Fishing boats Commerce Merchants
Subject.AAT	murals
Location	Hyde Park (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Work & Labor Landscape & Nature Geography & Natural Resources
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.021.a.tif
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2012-05-03
Format.Digital	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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