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Title	Sketches for Panels 9 and 10, Rhinebeck Post Office Mural
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 by C.B. Ross and Edward Campeau
Publisher.Original	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Description	Preliminary artist's sketch for Panels 9 and 10 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. Panel 9: "1865. A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National Bank of Rhinebeck. The frozen river brings traffic to and from Kingson, while the ice house, example of a once booming industry now defunct, is filled. On the hill is St. Joseph's Church (built 1864), and a number of Rhinecliff houses still standing." Panel 10: "Incidents connected with "Ferncliff." It was bought by William Astor in 1858, the present house being built in 1860 from plans by Griffith Thomas. The grounds were laid out by Charles Augustus Ehlers and his son Louis, who is seen above the bridge talking to Mr. and Mrs. Astor (1870). He was for many years Superintendent of "Ferncliff." In the background the tennis building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, is almost finished (1904). Above it the "Mary Powell" famous Hudson River Day Line boat, can be seen. A socially conscious modern painter draws the Italian workmen as they go home. At the right Colonel John Jacob Astor's first car (1901) is helped up the hill by a farm team." At the right, a scene from 1920: "The Decoration Day Parade goes by the Sherwood House built for Henry DeLamater about 1840... It is a particularly happy example of Victorian domestic wood Gothic. The foreground porch railing comes from the Johnston house."(Captions from: "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office")
Subject.LCSH	Mary Powell (Ship) Hudson River Day Line
Subject.TGM	Westward movement Architects Architecture Automobiles Bankers Drawing Steamboats Icehouses
Subject.AAT	murals
Subject.Local	St. Joseph's Church (Rhinebeck)
Personal Name	Delamater, Henry, 1800-1868 Thomas, Griffith, 1820-1879 McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 Mead, William Rutherford, 1846-1928 White, Stanford, 1853-1906 Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912 Astor, William B. (William Backhouse), 1792-1875 Billings, Henry, 1901-
Corporate Name	Rhinebeck Post Office, Rhinebeck, NY
Location	Rhinebeck (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Transportation Work & Labor Architecture
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.044.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2012-07-30
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

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