Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Exchange of Produce for Goods, 1870

Creator

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981

Subject

Post office buildings
Mural painting and decoration, American

Description

Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 13. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "1870-- The weekly Saturday trip to exchange farm produce for town goods passes Israel Carter's Sharp Tool Factory. John Greene Briggs and Isabel GIbbs DeGroff ride on the hay wagon. Farther along Crum Elbow Creek is the Cudner Mill."

Source

Bard College Archives

Publisher

Hudson River Valley Heritage
http://www.hrvh.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/bard/id/675/rec/7

Date

1940

Contributor

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

Format

Photograph : b&w

Files

hyde park post office mural.png

Citation

Dows, Olin, 1904-1981, “Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Exchange of Produce for Goods, 1870,” Stevenson Library Digital Collections, accessed March 29, 2024, https://omekalib.bard.edu/items/show/1023.

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