Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Late for Friends Meeting, 1820

Panel 10 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "Late for Friends Meeting at Crum Elbow Meeting House (built about 1797). The home in the foreground was built by Benjamin Sheldon, those in the background are Wilbur and Sheldon Houses." According to Harriet Myers, "Crum Elbow Meeting had 204 members when the Separation [the fist major schism within the Religious Society of Friends] took place," after which its members aligned themselves with the teachings of Elias Hicks. (From a manuscript for a pamphlet on the Rhinebeck Murals, found in FDR Library, Contain... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Dokumenttyp: Still Image
Erscheinungsdatum: 1940
Schlagwörter: Society of Friends--New York (State)--Dutchess County / Hyde Park (Dutchess County / N.Y. :Town)--History--Pictorial works / N.Y.)--Buildings / structures / etc / Friends' meeting houses / murals / Crum Elbow Meeting House / Hyde Park Post Office / Hyde Park / NY / Religion / People / Architecture
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Panel 10 of Hyde Park Post Office Mural. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": "Late for Friends Meeting at Crum Elbow Meeting House (built about 1797). The home in the foreground was built by Benjamin Sheldon, those in the background are Wilbur and Sheldon Houses." According to Harriet Myers, "Crum Elbow Meeting had 204 members when the Separation [the fist major schism within the Religious Society of Friends] took place," after which its members aligned themselves with the teachings of Elias Hicks. (From a manuscript for a pamphlet on the Rhinebeck Murals, found in FDR Library, Container 6 Folder 6). Hicks was an itinerant preacher from Long Island whose writings and sermons implicitly criticized the Orthodox friends for adopting an evangelism that was alien to the founding tenets of the Society of Friends, and placed great emphasis the component of Quaker theology that stressed the authority of the Inner Light. 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.