Hyde Park Post Office Mural: John and Samuel Bard, ca. 1789

Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 6. From "Murals in the Hyde Park, New York Post Office," published by Town of Hyde Park Historical Society: In the late 1780s. Dr. John Bard and Dr. Samuel Bard examine their new Italian melons, fertilized with gypsum. The latter's pockets bulge, as usual, with plants. A flock of wild pigeons fly across the sky. These two men were New York's most distinguished physicians-- Dr. John, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and a member of his Club, was the firs president of the New York Medical Society; with Dr. Peter Middleton performed the first dissection for instruct... Mehr ...