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Title	Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Sturgeon Fishing on the Hudson, 1870
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	Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 15. "1870-- William Meier (head of Hyde Park's caviar industry) pulls up an oversized sturgeon helped by Abe Atkins [an African American veteran who had fought in the Civil War as a member of Co. G of the 20th Regiment of the New York Colored Troops, interred at the Hyde Park Union Cemetery] (drowned later when the [steamboat] Mary Powell capsized his boat). Fish are being disemboweled on the beach and caviar made inthe shed. The Norwich (1823) docks on her way to New York (The layout of this dock comes from a survey made in 1845 by George Van Vliet.) On the hill the houses are from left to right: Langdon house (originally built by Samuel Bard about 1800. Torn down by Frederich Vanderbilt 1895) and water wheel-- Jacobus Stoutenburgh's second stone house (before 1768)--The first hotel-- the first store-- Church of the Stoutenburgh Religious Society (1789) flanked by the colored and white schools. Later buildings: The Hotel (burned 1879)--Horning House-- Fire House Tower (1902)-- Town Hall (1891)-- James Roosevelt Memorial Library (1926)-- Methodist Church (1834)-- Former Baptist Church (1846)--St, James Rectory (ater 1836)-- Regina Coeli Church (1863)-- Stone House (before 1780)-- Crumwold Hall (1889, architect Richard Morris Hunt)-- Stone House (before 1776)-- Gerald Morgan House (about 1812, remodelled by McKim, Mead 7 White, 1911)-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library (1940)-- Mrs. James Roosevelt (1826, added to between 1845-67, remodelled by Francis L.V. Hoppin--Mrs. J.R. Roosevelt (1804)." In the manuscript for a 1940 pamphlet on the Rhinebeck Murals, Helen Myers notes that "Sturgeon were plentiful in the Hudson from 1609... until the middle of the [19th] century. The fish were... caught for their flesh, "Albany beef." They gradually grew more and more scarece until it no longer paid to fish for them around 1914." According to Myers, Meier established his caviar-packing industry in the 1870's. The industry "disappeared with the sturgeon." (Container 6, Folder 6 of Olin Dows Papers in FDR Library)
Subject.LCSH	Hyde Park (Dutchess County, N.Y. : Town)--History--Pictorial works Hyde Park (Dutchess County, N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc
Subject.TGM	Caviar Fishing Rivers
Subject.Local	Langdon House Methodist Church (Hyde Park) Gerald Morgan House Regina Coeli Church
Personal Name	Atkins, Abraham, 1835-1871
Corporate Name	Hyde Park Post Office, Hyde Park, NY
Location	Hyde Park (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Business & Industry Environment & Conservation Geography & Natural Resources
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.073.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2012-07-23
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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