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Title	Sketch for Rhinebeck Post Office Mural : Cornshucking Bee
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	"... The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799. After 1799, any child born in New York State to a slave woman would be deemed free according to the 1799 Gradual Emancipation Bill, but would be required to serve his/hermother's master as an indentured servant until the age of 21, pending general emancipation in 1827. Children born to slave mothers on or before July 3rd, 1827 could legally be held as indentured servants until 1848. Sketches for the Rhinebeck post office murals were first executed by Dows and transferred to linen canvas which was then colored with thin turpentine glazes and installed with a dextrine adhesive. (Olin Dows Papers in FDR Library, Container 6, Folder 6)
Subject.LCSH	Rhinebeck (N.Y.),Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Rhinebeck (N.Y. : Town), Local history--New York (State) Village communities
Subject.TGM	Harvesting Corn Villages Eating & drinking Villages
Subject.AAT	murals
Corporate Name	Rhinebeck Post Office, Rhinebeck, NY
Location	Rhinebeck (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Work & Labor Women Agriculture
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.041.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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