Foster’s mural as depicted on a 1987 United States Postal Service special cancellation commemorative card
Searching for an Historian: Researching the Poughkeepsie Post Office Mural of the NY State Ratification of the U.S. Constitution (July 1788) painted by Gerald Foster
15 Sunday Mar 2020
Original size at 2768 × 1583
Jacobus Swarthout is my fifth great grandfather. My paternal grandmother was a Swarthout. I understand that posters were made of this Gerald Foster painting in 1988 to celebrate the bicentennial of this historic event. How would I obtain a copy of this poster?
I believe the ‘original’ is a mural painted on the wall of the Poughkeepsie, NY Post Office. I saw it when campaigning in the area years ago. You could take a picture of the mural. It depicts, among others Isaac
Roosevelt, grandfather of FDR, who may have commissioned the mural.
Yes, correct on all counts. Isaac Roosevelt is one of those depicted and his descendant FDR, who had a great interest in both philately and family/local history, commissioned the mural. I still have yet to see it but others I know have and have told me it is beautiful. There are other murals in the post office as well.