Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Unloading Goods at Stoutenburgh's Landing, ca. 1795

From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office:" "About 1795. Richard De Cantillon, Tobias Stoutenburgh's son-in-law, supervises workmen unloading rum, sugar and molasses from one of his West India trading packets. His landing, site of the present station, was a most active and prosperous enterprise. A man and woman mend shad nets-- logs are poled to shore for the saw mill-- a hay boat is loaded." 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.