The
Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker
Collection
Henry Francis du Pont
5105 Kennett Pike,
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF
THE COLLECTION
Creator: Andrews, Edward Deming,
1894-1964.
Title: Photographs and postcards
Dates: ca. 1850-ca.1970, bulk
ca.1880-ca.1930
Call No.: ASC Photos
Acc. No.: [various – see detailed
description]
Quantity: ca. 1600 items
Location: 29 F 3-5, and map case 1,
drawer 5
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT
Edward Deming Andrews (6 March 1894-13 June 1964)
was, by the time of his death, the leading authority on the Shakers. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he was
educated at Amherst College (BA, 1916) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1930). He married Faith Elizabeth Young of
Pittsfield in 1921. Together, the
Andrews collected Shaker manuscripts, publications, furniture, and
artifacts. They authored many works on
the Shakers, and advised museums and foundations on Shaker affairs. At his death, Andrews was survived by his
wife, 2 children, and five grandchildren.
Faith Andrews continued her interest in Shakers after the death of her
husband.
SCOPE AND
CONTENT
Photographs, postcards, stereographic views, and
ambrotypes documenting the Shakers and their communities. Includes individual and group portraits,
views of Shakers in their homes or work places, interiors and exteriors of
their buildings, Shaker produced goods, etc.
Many of the photos are identified.
Also includes modern photos of the Shaker cemetery in Watervliet, New
York, and black and white photos of gift drawings.
Sets of photos and stereographic views include
"Views of the North Family Shakers" (New Lebanon, N.Y.),
"Photographs of Shaker Village, Mt. Lebanon," "Shirley
Shakers" (Massachusetts), "Shaker Village, Canterbury, N.H.,"
"Photographic Views, Shaker Village, Canterbury, N.H.," and
"Views of Shaker Village, Enfield, Conn." There are also photos and postcards from
White Oak, Georgia; Pleasant Hill and South Union, Kentucky; Alfred and Sabbathday
Lake, Maine; Hancock, Harvard, and Tyringham, Massachusetts; Enfield, New
Hampshire; Watervliet, New York; and Union Village, Ohio.
ORGANIZATION
For the most part, in accession number order. The folders numbers in Boxes 1-7 and 10 come
from the trex indexing system.
LANGUAGE OF
MATERIALS
The materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS
ON ACCESS
Collection is open to the public. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Most of the photographs and postcards have been
scanned and are available through the Winterthur web site. Researchers are required to view these
before requesting access to the originals.
PROVENANCE
Gift of Mrs. Edward D. Andrews.
SA 2091-SA 2108 transferred from DAPC, fall 2015.
RELATED
MATERIALS
Additional photographs are found in the Andrews
Archives, part of the Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection. Many of the photos in the Andrews Archives
are copies of older photos; are photos used by Edward and Faith Andrews in
their books; or are 20th century views of Shaker communities; but some
original, older photos are also found.
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Shakers – Photographs.
Shakers - Connecticut - Photographs.
Shakers - Georgia - Photographs.
Shakers - Kentucky - Photographs.
Shakers - Maine - Photographs.
Shakers – Massachusetts - Photographs.
Shakers – New
Hampshire - Photographs.
Shakers – New York (State) - Photographs.
Shakers – Ohio - Photographs.
Black and white photographs.
Postcards.
Stereographs.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION
Location: 29 F 3-5 and map case 1, drawer 5
Box 1: SA 1-65
Folder 1: Stevens,
Rosetta (Eldress) (1 photo; SA 1)
North
Family, New Lebanon, N.Y.
Folder 2: Neale,
Emma; also her sister Sadie Neale; (7 photos, including 2 copies; SA 2-6)
One photo is half a stereocard, taken at Watervliet prior
to 1890; one photo also includes unidentified sisters (one in middle is Emma
Neale), all working on making pin cushions to be sold to the world; one photo
is of a pencil portrait of Emma done by Mary McMillan in 1936. SA 3 was taken circa 1890.
Folder 3: Hazard, Mary (7 photos, 3 the same; SA
7-10; see also SA 95)
Anna Dodgson appears in one photo; includes the
stereocard “Interior of Church Family’s Store” from the set “Photographs of
Shaker Village, Mt. Lebanon,” Mary Hazard appears in this stereocard, which
also shows the fancy goods made for sale by the sisters.
Folder 4: Lewis, Polly (2 photos; SA 11-12)
Includes a
stereocard, which depicts Sister Polly and Eldress Anne Liza Charles, New
Lebanon, 1898. Polly Lewis was a member
of the South Family.
Folder 5: Allen, Catherine (3 photo postcards;
SA 13-14; 2 copies is SA 13)
3 postcards,
first quarter of 20th century, one is labeled “Eldress Catherine,”
the other (of which there are 2 copies) also includes Sister Martha [surname
not given]. One of these is marked H. M.
Gillet, Photographic Post Cards, Lebanon Springs, N.Y.
Catherine Allen
was a member of the North Family at Mount Lebanon.
Folder 6: Doolittle, Antoinette (Eldress) (4
photos, 2 views of each of 2 photos; SA 15-16)
Includes a
stereocard and two halves of a stereocard.
Sister Antoinette was a member of the North Family, New Lebanon. One of the photos of Sister Antionette
belonged to Laura C. Holloway Langford.
Folder 7: Bowers, Lucy S. (1 photo; SA 17)
A member of
the New Lebanon community. Biographical
information on reverse of photo.
Folder 8: Bowers, Grace and Anna White (4 photos,
2 the same; SA 18-20)
Includes a
photo of Grace with Anna White and Martha Anderson, all grouped around a sewing
desk. All members of North Family, New
Lebanon.
Folder 9: Egeson, Margaret (Eldress) (1 photo;
SA 21)
Member of
South Family, New Lebanon.
Folder 10: Collins, Sarah (about 46 photos and
postcards, many duplicates; SA 22-37)
Many views of Sister Sarah working on Shaker chairs; also
braiding a rug and spinning. She was a
member of South Family, New Lebanon.
Folder 11: Taylor, Eliza Ann (2 views, 6 photos; SA
38-39)
Member of
New Lebanon community. (One source lists
her first name as Elisa.)
Folder 12: Wilson, Hannah (1 photo; SA 40)
Half a
stereocard, with Sister Hannah and Sister Margaret [no surname given]. Members of Upper Family, Canaan, New York.
Folder 13: Whitcher, Mary, and Dorothy Durgin (2
views, 3 photos; SA 41-42)
Members of
Canterbury, N.H., community.
Folder 14: Offord, Miriam, and Harriet Storer (1
photo, 1 postcard; SA 43-44)
Miriam was a
member of the North Family, Enfield, Conn.
Harriet lived at Shaker Station, Conn.
Folder 15: Case, Anna, and Martha J. Anderson (1
printed picture, 3 photos; SA 45-47)
Anna lived
at Watervliet. Her photo is dated
1930.
Martha lived
at New Lebanon.
Folder 16: Settles, Mary, and Mary [surname
unknown] (1 photo; SA 48)
Although the
younger Mary is identified as “Sister Mary,” she is not wearing typical Shaker
costume. Mary Settles was a member of
the Center Family of Pleasant Hill, Ky.
The photo was taken on the front steps of the Trustee’s Office at
Pleasant Hill.
Folder 17: various sisters: Mary Falls, Sarah
Woods, Lucy Ann Shepard, Caroline Whitcher [surname also given as Whitaker],
Sister Tillie [surname unknown, but one source lists it as Schnell], Dolly
Saxton [with children and another unidentified sister; a stereocard], Julia
Scott (with children, at the wash house, 1904), Emily Curtiss, Sophia Helfrich
(1 stereocard, 8 photos; SA 49-57)
Mary Falls
was a member of Church Family, Enfield, N.H.
Dolly Saxton
lived at New Lebanon.
The photo of
Julia Scott and the girls was taken in a wash house.
Emily
Curtiss and Sophia Helfrich lived in the Second Family, Hancock.
Folder 18: Smith, Alice, and others (9 photos, some
duplicates; SA 58-65)
Jenny
Pettiff, Sister Catherine, and Sister Anna appear in one photo (SA 58); they
lived at Hancock.
SA 59: Alice and
Ethel Smith, may have lived at Hancock.
SA 60-65: Alice
Smith, Church Family, Hancock, 1900-1930.
Box 2: SA
66-142
Folder 19: Robert
Valentine; Emma Neale; unidentified Shaker sister (1 photo; SA 66)
Emma and
Robert lived at New Lebanon.
Folder 20: Sawyer, Otis (1 photo; SA 67)
Otis lived
at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
Folder 21: James Kaine [surname also given as
Kairne], Abraham Perkins, Benjamin Smith, Henry Blinn, William Briggs with a
view of Canterbury, New Hampshire (2 stereocards, 3 photos, some duplicates, SA
68-70)
These
brethren lived at Canterbury. William Briggs is shown on Tebbit’s Hill.
Folder 22: Gilbert Avery, Nicholas Briggs, Issachar
Bates Jr., George Wilcox, Richard van Deusan [or Deusen], Stephen Crane (at age
13) (2 postcards, 5 photos; SA 71-76)
Gilbert
Avery lived at Shaker Station, Conn.
Nicholas
Briggs lived at Canterbury or Enfield, N.H.
Issachar
Bates, Jr., George Wilcox, and Richard van Deusan (or Deusen) lived in Enfield,
Conn.
Stephen
Crane lived at Enfield, but whether Connecticut or New Hampshire is not
specified.
Folder 23: Isaac Anstatt [or Instatt], Frederick
Sizer, Alonzo Hollister, William Anderson, Giles B. Avery, Clinton Brainard,
William Libby, David Parker, Calvin Reed, Elder Daniel [Offord] of Mount Lebanon
(in wash room) (2 postcards, 11 photos; SA 77-86)
Isaac lived
in Watervliet.
The others
are known or believed to have lived in New Lebanon. Alonzo Hollister was a member of the Church
family, William Anderson a member of South family, Clinton Brainard a member of
Second family.
Two photos
are copies of SA 80, the photo of Alonzo Hollister.
The photo of
Elder Daniel Offord in the wash or laundry room of Mount Lebanon is present as
a photographic postcard and as a photo.
The postcard is cropped a bit.
The photo shows the washing machine in use.
Folder 24: William Pennybaker (doctor), Napoleon
Brown, Henry Daly, Stephen Boisseau (3 photos; SA 87-89)
Brethren of
Pleasant Hill, Ky.
Folder 25: Rufus Crossman at age 92, George Clark
(driving a buggy pulled by Major), John Martin(? or Harlow) (1 postcard, 3
photos, 2 the same; SA 90-92)
There is a
faded photo of a building on the reverse of SA 91.1.
Folder 26: Mary Hazard, [Miriam Offord, Hannah Wilson,
Ruth Barry,] and unidentified Shaker sisters (10 photos, some duplicates; SA
93-101)
At least
some of these sisters lived in a New York community.
Folder 27: [Angeline Brown, Sister Copley,]
unidentified Shaker sisters (12 photos; SA 102-113)
These
sisters lived in Hancock.
Folder 28: unidentified Shaker sisters; one poses
with a dog; one works at a loom (a copy of this photo identifies her as Sadie
Neale); and one is spinning (1 postcard,
10 photos; SA 114-123)
One photo
was taken in Concord, N.H., and another in Trenton, N.J.
Although the
subjects of the original photos are not identified, SA 122, the elderly sister
working at a loom, has been identified as Sadie Neale, taken in the 1930s. A modern copy of SA 122 is in the folder.
Folder 29: Lillian Barlow, working in the chair
shop; [Sarah Collins], and unidentified Shaker sisters (10 photos, some
duplicates; SA 124-127)
These
sisters lived in New Lebanon.
Folder 30: unidentified Shaker brethren, one is
possibly Benjamin Gates (8 photos; SA 128-135)
Benjamin
Gates lived in New York.
The other photos
were taken in Pittston, Penn., Kenosha, Wisconsin, Pittsfield, Mass., and New
York.
Folder 31: [Rufus Crossman, Calvin Reed, Ferdinand
Gainebin(?), Daniel Sizer, Arthur Brace, Irving Greenwood] and unidentified Shaker brethren (9 photos,
some duplicates; SA 136-142)
Box 3: SA 143-245
(except 220, 231-233)
Folder 32: Angeline
Brown and her brothers as children (1 ambrotype, 2 photos, SA 143)
Angeline
Brown lived in Enfield and Hancock, New Hampshire.
Folder 33: group photos, mostly North Family, Mt.
Lebanon (1 postcard, 7 photos; SA 144-149)
Several of
these are from a set called “Views of North Family Shakers at Mt. Lebanon, New
York,” taken by J. E. West and available from Anna White. One of these photos was made into a
postcard. Some of the people have been
identified. One photo is mounted onto an
album page, and on the reverse is a view of Caldwell, N.Y., taken from a
steamboat.
Identified
people are Mazella Gallup, Leila Taylor, Sister Rosetta, Eliza Rayson, Anna
White, Sarah Burger, Julia Lincoln, Ann Offord, Sister Cecelia, Martha
Anderson, Sister Maria, and Frederick Evans.
Locations
include library (one sister sits at a piano, the others have books), dining
room (the tables are set for a meal), and dairy. One photo is titled “group with hedge.” The same group also appears in “group with
arbor,” which is also available as a postcard.
One of the brothers carries gardening tools.
SA 147, a group
photo, is also available as a postcard, see SA 1348.5.
Folder 34: group photos, mostly Church and South
families, Mount Lebanon (4 stereocards, 2 photos; SA 150-155)
The stereocards are from the set “Photographs of Shaker
Village, Mt. Lebanon, Columbia Co., N.Y.,” printed by A. J. Alden of
Pittsfield, Mass. The people in one
photo have been identified. Elder Robert
Wagan, the chairmaker is in SA 155.
Folder 35: group photos, mostly Mount Lebanon (3
stereocards, 2 halves of stereocards, 1 post card, 7 photos, some duplicates;
SA 156-165)
One photo is
accompanied by a list which identifies the people.
Folder 36: group photos (2 stereocards, half a
stereocard, 2 photos; SA 166-170)
Group of
brethren and boys with gardening tools (Watervliet, N.Y.; see SA 1523 for a
colored version of this card).
Group of sisters
and 1 brother at the kitchen entrance of the Enfield, Conn. North family
dwelling, posing with garden produce.
Also members
of the Church family, Enfield, Conn.
Two groups
of Shakers visiting Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
Folder 37: Sabbathday Lake, Maine (28 photos; SA
171-198)
Individual
and group shots, mostly identified; views of the buildings, mostly
identified.
Also includes an
envelope addressed to Eldress Anna, and a note written to her by Genie
Coolbroth, “Am sending you the pictures you wished for…,” dated July 31, 1921.
Folder 38: Shakers and buildings (4 stereocards, 2
postcards [same view], 1 photo; SA 199-204)
Stereocards
from Canterbury, N.H., including the schoolroom with teachers and pupils;
postcard of sisters from Harvard, Mass. (“the last of the Shakers”); photo of
the Second Family, Hancock, Mass.
One of the views
from Canterbury shows visitors from the world outside the meeting house.
Folder 39: Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (6 photos; SA
205-210)
Group
photos, mostly on steps of buildings, some identifications. One of the photos was taken at a picnic in
May 1887; this group includes a large number of children.
Folder 40: group photos (3 postcards, 2
stereocards, 4 photos; SA 211-219)
One of the
photos is of sisters making maple sugar candy, probably the same picture as
used in W. G. C. Kimball’s series of stereocards of Canterbury, N.H., which
included views of the Shakers’ maple sugar operations. Mostly these photos are not identified.
Folder 41: Canaan, New York (1 stereocard, 1 photo,
SA 221-222)
Group of
buildings, with 2 sisters carry laundry basket; Shakers in a field next to
village. SA 221 is the Upper family; SA
222 is the Lower family.
[see also SA
220 in oversize box]
Folder 42: Watervliet, New York (11 photos, 4 of
which are mounted on the same sheet; SA 223-230)
All of these
are views of Watervliet, no people appear; identified on back. The 4 photos mounted together are labeled as
1915, West family Shakers, Niskayuna. The
photos include views of Church, West, and South family buildings and the
meeting house.
[see also SA
231-233 in oversize box]
Folder 43: Canterbury, New Hampshire (9
stereocards, 2 single postcards and a postcard folder; SA 234-244)
These photos
focus on buildings and landscape, although a couple also include people. Includes views of North, Middle, and Church
families, and George Clark with Old Fox.
Folder 44: Canterbury, New Hampshire, album (SA
245)
An album, in
separate box, on shelf. It includes
views of the village, interior shots of school, cheese room, print shop, dining
room, kitchen (focusing on stoves), bee keepers, and boys.
In the doc box
with other photos is a view of the village, enlarged from the album.
Box 4: SA
246-321
Folder 45: Mount Lebanon, New York (5 stereocards, 8
postcards, 10 photos; SA 246-263; 2 copies of SA 253.1)
Primarily photos of exteriors of buildings
and views of the area, but people appear in some. Includes chair shop, dinner bell, and “The
Grove.”
SA 253.1-.3 are variant views of the same
scene. SA 253.2 is a photograph, while
the others are postcards. SA 253. 3 is
marked as being by Will S. Potter.
Folder 46: Mount
Lebanon, New York (3 stereocards, 9 photos; SA 264-273)
Primarily
photos of exteriors of buildings, but people appear in some. Includes Second family herb shop, Brethren’s
shop, and a factory building.
Folder 47: Mount
Lebanon, New York (3 stereocards, 5 photos; SA 274-281)
Primarily
photos of exteriors of buildings, but people appear in some. Includes Center, West, and South family
buildings; a mill, office building, sisters’ shop (chair shop and dairy).
Folder 48: Mount
Lebanon, New York (1 stereocard, 2 postcards, 10 photos; SA 282-294)
Primarily
photos of exteriors of North family buildings, including the great stone barn,
but people appear in several.
Several photos
are from “Views of North Family Shakers…,” taken by J. E. West and available
from Anna White. These include “the kitchen
garden,” “North Family buildings from the south,” “First and Second Houses,”
what might be “between the dwellings” (this is marked as by West, but is not
labeled as being part of the View series), and “in the path.”
Folder 49: Mount Lebanon, New York (10 stereocards,
4 postcards [2 the same view], 8 photos; SA 295-314)
Primarily
photos of exteriors of Church family buildings, especially the meeting house,
but people appear in some. One photo
shows 3 teams of horses hitched to wagons and a steam machine outside a barn;
the men in the photo might not be Shaker brethren. Includes nurse shop, dwelling, office, shed. A street scene with a wagon is available as a
photo (stamped on back: J.E. West, photographer, Berlin, N.Y.) and as a
postcard (2 copies).
[see also SA
315 in oversize box]
Folder 50: Enfield,
Connecticut (6 stereocards, 1 photo; SA 316-321)
Depict
Shakers outside various buildings of West and South families. Most of the sterocards are from “View of
Shaker Village, Enfield, Conn.,” taken by E. J. Lazelle, a photographer in
Springfield, Mass.
Box 5: SA
322-427 (except 341-342, 400-401, 403)
Folder 51: Enfield, Connecticut: North Family (2
stereocards, 8 postcards; SA 322-331)
Mostly
exteriors of buildings. Four of the
postcards are in color.
Folder 52: Enfield, Connecticut: Church Family (3
stereocards, 3 postcards, 3 photos; SA 332-340)
Mostly
exteriors of buildings, with some people.
One postcard is in color.
Includes a stereocard of their peach orchard and a postcard of a pasture
with cows.
[see also SA
341-342 in oversize box]
Folder 53: Alfred,
Maine (1 postcard; SA 343)
View
of road and tops of some buildings.
Folder 54: Sabbathday
Lake, Maine (1 colored postcard, 1 printed picture; SA 344-345)
Buildings
only.
Folder 55: Tyringham,
Massachusetts (2 postcards, 1 photo; SA 346-348)
Photo
is of mill.
Folder 56: Shirley,
Massachusetts (7 stereocards, 1 printed picture, 1 photo; SA 349-356)
Mostly
exteriors of buildings, plus the graveyard and Holy Hill, mostly circa
1870-1879. Center, South, and Church
family buildings, including sisters’ shop, dry house, minstry’s house, meeting
house, barn.
Folder 57: Hancock,
Massachusetts (1 stereocard, 5 photos; SA 357-362)
Mostly
exteriors of Second family buildings, with views of west barn; also East family
grist mill.
Folder 58: Hancock, Massachusetts (2 postcards, 1
printed picture, 9 photos; SA 357-362) Mostly
exteriors, with some aerial photos; includes broom shop, and one photo with
hen, wash, and wood houses and herb shop.
Folder 59: Hancock,
Massachusetts (5 postcards, 23 photos; SA 374-400)
Mostly
exteriors, including a number of the round stone barn; also an interior shot of
the barn. Includes meeting house,
dwelling, gift shop, dairy, schoolhouse, sisters’ shop, shed, marble trough.
[see also SA
401 in oversize box]
Folder 60: Hancock,
Massachusetts (1 photo; SA 402)
Second
or East Family’s Brethren’s Shop, which burned in 1874.
[see
also SA 403 in oversize box]
Folder 61: Enfield,
New Hampshire (10 stereocards; SA 404-410)
Exteriors or
views of the area, with one brother in a field.
Shows buildings of North [Gathering], South, and Church families.
Folder 62: Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (2 stereocards,
1 postcard folder, 5 photos, 1 printed picture; SA 411-419)
Exteriors of
buildings, most with people; color postcard folder is an advertisement for
Shakertown Inn, printed after 1923. Other postcards include broom factory, Center
house, grist mill, office, West and East houses. [another copy of the postcard folder is
numbered SA 1412.137.65]
Folder 63: South Union, Kentucky (34 photos, 1
letter; SA 420)
A letter
from Brother Thomas Whitaker of Saint Maur’s Priory, with the identifications
of the photos which he also sent, July 1957.
Folder 64: South
Union Kentucky (22 photos; SA 421-423)
Interior and
exterior views of the Center House, South Union, taken in February 1958; and
interior shots of the Shaker museum in Auburn, Kentucky, probably taken 1950s.
Folder 65: White Oak, Georgia; Union Village and
North Union, Ohio (3 photos, 2 printed pictures, 1 card; SA 424-427)
Three photos of the Shaker’s house in White Oak, taken in
1957; a printed picture (same view, two sizes) of Church Family buildings,
Union Village, Ohio, and a printed card with a view of North Union.
[see also SA
428 in oversize box]
Box 6: SA
429-581 (except 428, 465-466, 484-485, 488)
Folder 66: village
views (7 stereocards, half a sterocard, 2 photos; SA 429-438)
Views of
Enfield, New Hampshire (Church family barn); Mount Lebanon, New York (North
family); Hancock, Massachusetts; and several not identified, one of which might
be Shirley or Harvard, Mass. Views
usually include people and sometimes livestock.
Folder 67: Enfield, Connecticut, and Canterbury,
New Hampshire (4 stereocards, 1 postcard, 2 photos; SA 439-444)
Mostly views
of dining rooms at both communities; also the cheese shop at Canterbury. The view of the music room has Canterbury
crossed out and Enfield, N.H., written in.
Folder 68: New Lebanon, New York (2 postcards [same
view], 22 photos; SA 445-464)
Mostly
interior views of various buildings, including shops and laundry. Postcard depicts a sister at a loom. Buildings of Church, North, and South
families, and extract house of Second Order.
[see also SA
465-466 in oversize box]
Folder 69a: Hancock, Massachusetts: interior views (17
photos; SA 467-483)
Interior
views include laundry, Church family kitchen, Sisters’ shop (SA 480) and
meeting house. SA 467-479 depict
buildings of the Church family.
[see also SA
484-485 in oversize box]
Folder 69b: Hancock, Massachusetts: Interior views (4
photos; SA 486-487, 489-490)
Details of
barn and unidentified building.
[see also SA
488 in oversize box]
Folder 70: Hancock, Massachusetts: Interior views,
ca. 1920-1930 (5 photos; SA 491-495)
The photos
are identified on the backs by Alice White.
Two photos show Christmas decorations in music room in 1920. Also includes a kitchen and a summer house.
Folder 71: work areas, possibly of New Lebanon,
N.Y. (6 postcards, 9 photos; SA 496-508)
Mostly
unidentified, but includes views of a chair shop.
Folder 72: chair factory (1 photo; SA 509)
Interior of
Shaker chair factory, with 3 workmen, one of whom is identified as Brother John
Stover.
Folder 73: interiors (8 photos; SA 510-516)
Assorted
interiors, including a close-up of a woman weaving (all one sees of her are her
hands)
Folder 74: Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (1 photo; SA
517)
Interior of
Center family dwelling, 2d floor hallway, circa 1930-1949
Folder 75: interiors: not Shaker (4 photos; SA
518-520)
Three views
of the living room of Mrs. John Spring, Gloucester, Mass., and an unidentified
sitting room with a number of objects noted as being “by Andrews”
Folder 76: Interiors: Museums (8 photos, a pamphlet, a letter; SA 521-530)
The letter
and pamphlet pertain to the Dunham Tavern in Cleveland; two of the photos are
of a Shaker room in that building. The
other photos are also of museum installations, including Winterthur Museum,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Fruitlands.
Folder 77: Shaker exhibit (16 photos; SA 531-544)
Photos of
the Shaker exhibit at the New York State Museum, Albany, 1930.
Folder 78a: Shaker furniture (29 photos, many
duplicates; SA 545-555)
Mostly
tables, benches, and chairs, in room settings.
Some identified. Illustrations
for E. D. Andrews, Shaker Furniture.
Folder 78b: Shaker furniture (31 photos, many
duplicates; SA 556-569)
Mostly
tables, stands, benches, and chairs, with some chests, some in room
settings. Some identified. Illustrations for E. D. Andrews, Shaker Furniture.
Folder 78c: Shaker furniture (28 photos, many
duplicates; SA 570-581)
Mostly
chests, desks, and chairs, mostly in room settings. Some identified. Illustrations for E. D. Andrews, Shaker Furniture.
Box 7: SA
582-740 (except 674, 712-719, 721-722, 741)
Folder 78d: Shaker furniture (1 page of printed
pictures, 23 photos, with duplicates; SA 5582-593)
Beds, desks,
chairs, kitchen, shoe making shop, oval boxes, wooden knobs, chair hardware,
some in room settings. A few identified. Illustrations for E. D. Andrews, Shaker Furniture.
Folder 79: Shaker furniture from New Lebanon North
family, Canterbury, and Hancock (5 photos, some duplicates; SA 594-596)
Kitchen
tables, sideboard. Identified.
Folder 80: Shaker furniture (9 photos; SA 597-603)
Mostly
chests; identified. Furniture from New
Lebanon Church family, Hancock, and Union Village, Ohio.
Folder 81: Shaker furniture (8 photos; SA 604-610)
Mostly
chests and cupboards; not identified.
Folder 82: Desks
(1 postcard, 14 photos; SA 611-617)
Identified;
mostly not in room settings. From New
Lebanon North family, Union Village, Canterbury, and possibly Hancock.
Folder 83: Desks
(5 photos; SA 618-620)
Some
identified; mostly not in room settings.
Folder 84: Desk
given to Sister Grace Dahm (1875-1950) of Watervliet (1 photo; SA 621)
Folder 85: Tables
and stands (11 photos; SA 622-631)
Identified;
not in room settings. From Ohio,
Kentucky, New York, and Massachusetts.
Folder 86: Tables and stands (12 photos, some
duplicates; SA 632-637)
Not
identified; not in room settings.
Folder 87: Clocks (2 photos; SA 638-639)
Identified. One by Isaac Youngs and the other by Amos
Jewett, both of New Lebanon.
Folder 88: Bench,
chairs, bed (9 photos, 1 in color, some duplicates; SA 640-647)
Mostly
not identified
Folder 89: Shaker
furniture; musical instruments (4 photos; SA 648-651)
Furniture:
tables; chairs, including a wheel chair; a walker; mostly not identified.
Musical
instruments: tone-ometer, mode-ometer, bow, baton, with label from Shaker
Museum, Chatham, N.Y.
Folder 90: Tall
chest from Watervliet, Ohio (1 photo; SA 652), identified
Folder 91: Stoves
(5 photos; SA 653-656)
Not
identified. Some in room settings, some
not
Folder 92: Tools:
assorted (7 photos; SA 657-663)
Sander or
leather polisher; electro-static machine; work benches (including for shoe
making); spinning wheels and other implements used to turn flax or wool into
thread or yard; loom. Mostly not
identified.
Folder 93: Boxes
and baskets (5 photos; SA 664-668)
Oval
boxes, baskets, and a candle holder; not identified.
Folder 94: Wood
carving (1 photo; SA 669)
Statue
of a man, carved with date 1770; not identified.
Possibly not
Shaker.
Folder 95: Interiors
(4 photos; SA 670-673)
Unidentified
rooms, focusing on furniture (tables, desk, chair, chests). SA 670 possibly a study for plate 20 in Shaker Furniture. Chest of Abner Alley of Enfield, 1849; table
from New Lebanon.
SA
671-674 are photos of the Andrews’ collection.
[see
SA 674 in oversize box]
Folder 96: Shaker Farm interiors (Richmond, Mass.)
(7 photos, some duplicates; SA 675-679)
Includes
sitting room, bed room, “St. Jerome’s study,” circa 1940.
Shaker Farms,
also known as Richmond Farm, was home of Dr. and Mrs. E.D. Andrews.
Folder 97: Andrews furniture collection: home,
Pittsfield, Mass. (9 photos, some duplicates; SA 680-685)
Sitting
room, dining room, bed room; table; photographed by Tom Yee.
Another
copy of SA 682 is in oversize box
Folder 98: Andrews
furniture collection (10 photos; SA 686-694)
These photos
were taken by Look Magazine. Most focus on individual pieces of furniture,
but one shows Dr. Andrews with an arrangement of seating furniture, a table,
and chests.
See also SA 695
and SA 696, in map case 1, drawer 5.
Another copy of SA 686b also in
map case.
SA 692 is a
detail from SA 696
Note: these
photos cannot be copied, copyright held by Look
Magazine
Folder 99: Furniture collection of Mr. and Mrs.
David Volk Andrews, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York (13 photos, some duplicates;
SA 697-704)
Tables,
cupboards, chests. Photos by Tom Yee,
circa 1960-1965.
Folder 100a: Dr. and Mrs. Edward Deming Andrews (1 photo;
SA 705)
July 2,
1961; standing next to Shaker desk.
Folder 100b: Dr. and Mrs. Edward Deming Andrews with
unidentified Shaker sister (2 photos, duplicates, and partial newspaper article;
SA 706b), taken by a Pittsfield, Mass., photographer
Note:
newspaper article identifies the Shaker sister as Eldress Emma King, and notes
the photo was taken in 1961.
Folder 101: [Smith College Shaker festival photos, SA
707-711, in Andrews Archives]
Folders 102-104: [in oversize box]
Folder 105: Spirit drawings and hymnals (6 photos; SA
723-728)
SA 723:
Second family, Enfield, 1853;
SA 724: a
type of Mother Hannah’s Handkerchief, Jane Blanchard, 1853; SA 725: Tree of Life, Hannah
Cohoon, Hancock, 1854’
SA 726-728:
hymnals
Folder 106: Sheeler, Charles: paintings (12 photos; SA
729-740)
Charles
Sheeler painted Shaker buildings and used Shaker-made goods (furniture, boxes,
etc.) in other paintings. All these
photos are of paintings which included Shaker buildings or goods. Labels are included. The titles of the paintings are “American
Interior” (two by this title), “Americana,” “Barn Variation,” “Buildings at
Lebanon,” “Feline Felicity,” “Home Sweet Home,” “Interior,” “On a Shaker
Theme,” “Shaker Buildings,” “Shaker Detail,” and “The Upstairs.” Paintings were done between 1931 and 1956.
[Folder 107: oversize album, in Box 10]
Box 8:
Folder 1: Harvard
Shaker Village (1 daguerreotype or ambrotype; SA 1292)
Folder 2: photos
and postcards (5 postcards, 13 photos, 7 letters; SA 1324.1-.20)
Assortment
of subjects; includes postcards of Hancock, photo of Sister Ann Taylor (with
separate label), photos of rooms, furniture, other Shakers, some identified,
some not. The letters pertain to some of
the photos.
Folder 3: photos of Shakers (5 postcards, 3
photos; SA 1348.1-.7; 2 copies of .5)
Portrait
photos of Eldress Anna White (New Lebanon), Elder Daniel Offord (New Lebanon),
Frederick Evans, and Sisters Anna Case and Isabelle Graves of Watervliet (a
postcard). The other postcards are group
photos of Mount Lebanon Shakers (with 4 brothers and 13 sisters; also available
as photos, see SA 147 and SA 1435), sisters in an unidentified community, and
school children in an unidentified community.
Folder 4: Photos: New York State Museum (3
photos; SA 1350.1-.3)
Two photos
of an exhibit at the museum in 1930; photo of New Lebanon Church Family
community.
Folder 5: White Oak Club, White Oak, Georgia (1
photo, 1 label; SA 1389.7)
Former Shaker
property, taken sometime between 1903 and 1919; copy of an older photo.
Folder 6: Photos and postcards (18 postcards [1
colored], 2photos; SA 1405.1-.20)
The
postcards depict making chairs in Mount Lebanon (including Sister Sarah Collins
at work), Shaker buildings and rooms, and an unidentified Shaker sister. Not all the postcards are labeled; the
labeled ones are from Mount Lebanon, New York.
The photos
document the visit of an elderly couple to a Shaker community on August 20,
1928. No one is identified in these 2
photos.
Folder 7: photo of a room (1 framed photo, SA
1407)
Framed in
Schenectady, corner of a room, possibly at Mount Lebanon, showing desk, table,
book case, chair, photos of Shakers.
Folder 8: photos of Shakers (5 photos; SA
1424-1428)
2 sisters
(not identified); Brother Charles Greaves (part of the “Views of North Family
Shakers” set; he is carrying carpentry tools); 3 sisters making fancy goods, Mount
Lebanon, August 12, 1889; Brother Van standing in tin shop doorway, possibly
Pleasant Hill; Sarah Collins at loom, inscribed to and Edward Andrews.
Folder 9: Neale sisters (1 photo, SA 1432)
Twentieth
century copy of a 19th century photo of sisters Sadie and Emma Neale
as young women.
Folder 10: group photo: Mount Lebanon, circa 1892
(1 photo, with label; SA 1435)
North Family
Shakers at Mount Lebanon, probably taken 1892.
Identified on back and also on separate note.
Same as SA
1348.5 (a postcard, two copies) and SA 147.
Folder 11: Collins, Sarah (1 photo; SA 1522)
Sister Sarah
as an elderly woman, not dated.
Folder 12: Children’s Order, etc., photos (7
stereocards, 4 photos, 1 typed item; SA 1523.1-.12)
Photos from
various Shaker communities, including Enfield, Conn.; Canterbury, N.H.; Mount
Lebanon, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass.
Although most of the photos do include children, often with their
teachers or caregivers, there is also a photo of Sister Leila S. Taylor. A stereocard shows the oldest Shaker brother
and sister and the youngest boys and girls at Hancock in 1879. A colored stereocard shows boys with brethren
and gardening tools (SA 166 is a black and white version of this; it is labeled
Watervliet). The typed item refers to “A
Juvenile Monitor” printed at New Lebanon in 1823.
Folder 13: Bonnets (3 photos; SA 1525.1-.3)
A bonnet
stand and two bonnets on stands, from New York State Museum, 1931.
Folder 14: Enfield, Connecticut: postcards (3
postcards; SA 1583-1585)
Exteriors of
buildings; one landscape. All colored;
one postmarked 1911. Published by
Springfield News Co., Springfield, Mass.
Folder 15: Ayer, Massachusetts [i.e. Harvard] (1 postcard; SA 1586)
Postmarked
1909; black and white version of the colored card in folder 17. Published by Geo. H. Hill, Ayer, Mass.
Folder 16: Harvard, Massachusetts: postcards (4
postcards; SA 1590-1593)
One colored;
one from Fruitlands Museum; postcard of burying ground has added date of circa
1916.
Folder 17: Pittsfield, Massachusetts [i.e. Hancock]
(3 postcards; SA 1587-1589)
Two in color,
one of which was copyrighted in 1906.
The black and white card was copyrighted 1905.
Folder 18: Shirley,
Massachusetts (1 postcard, SA 1594)
In
color; only shows road and trees, no buildings.
Folder 19: Sabbathday
Lake, Maine (5 postcards; SA 1595-1599)
All colored;
3 of lake, 2 of buildings; 2 postmarked 1920s, 1 possibly 1911.
Box 9:
Folder 1: Alfred,
Maine (4 postcards; SA 1412.137.1-.4)
Exteriors of
barn, dwelling, store, diary; automobile in one picture; people in two
pictures; no dates
Folder 2: Ayer, Massachusetts [Harvard] (2
postcards; SA 1624-1625)
Village view
and mill, both dated 1907.
Folder 3: Canterbury, New Hampshire (19 postcards, 1 printed picture, some
duplicates, some in color; SA 1412.137.5-.9, 1601, 1603-1605, 1607-1609, 1612-1613,
1654-1658; printed picture is not numbered)
Few are
dated; the dates which appear are 1907, 1918, 1951 (but most are early 20th
century). Exteriors, interiors, views,
cows.
Folder 4: Canterbury, New Hampshire (7
stereocards; SA 1638-1644)
Village
views, group of sisters and girls, bee hives, pumping water. Photos by H.A. Kimball and W.G.C. Kimball,
circa 1878-1879.
Folder 5: Enfield, Connecticut (33 postcards,
some duplicates, some in color; SA 1412.137.20-.39, 1659-1660)
Mostly views of the North
Family community, but also of Church Family.
Includes dining room, scenery and pasture. One dining room card is dated 1908; others
are early 20th century.
Folder 6: Enfield, New Hampshire (17 postcards, some in color; SA 1412.137.40,
1600, 1602, 1606, 1610, 1611, 1614-1616, 1645-1652)
Views of
area, especially focusing on bridges and lake, also exteriors, one interior
(dining room), the garden, and Shaker Sisters.
Dates range 1906-1913; one
post-World War II.
Folder 7: Hancock, Massachusetts (7 postcard,
two the same; SA 1412.137.41-.45, 1665, 1672)
Village
views, summer house, gift shop, round barn.
Card of office and store dated 1921.
Folder 8: Harvard, Massachusetts (3 postcards;
SA 1412.137.46-.47, 1653)
“Square”
house, graveyard, herb house, no dates.
Folder 9: New Lebanon, New York (33 postcards,
some in color, some duplicates; SA 1412.137.48-.64, 1617-1623, 1626, 1666-1671,
1716-1717)
One dated
1906. Mostly exteriors, village views
(Church, North, and South families), chair store, nearby scenery; also sisters
and a family group. Cars in several
pictures. Dates range 1906-1922.
Folder 10: Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (1 postcard
folder, in color; SA 1412.137.65)
Souvenir
folder of Shakertown Inn, Shakertown, Ky., addressed to Edward D. Andrews,
after 1923. Includes views of rooms in
the inn and nearby scenery. [another
copy of this is SA 419]
Folder 11: Sabbathday Lake Maine (5 postcards,
mostly in color; SA 1412.137.68, 1661-1664)
Various
village views; no legible dates.
Folder 12: Shirley, Mass. (2 postcards; SA
1412.137.66-.67)
Office and
view down the street; no dates.
Folder 13: South Union, Kentucky (1 postcard; SA
1412.137.69)
Caption on
card: O.S. Bond’s Shaker Farm, on U.S. 68, 3 1.2 miles north of Auburn,
Ky. View of dwelling and other
buildings. No date.
Folder 14: Watervliet, New York (3 postcards; SA
1412.137.70-.72)
Exteriors of
buildings, one with 2 Sisters, no dates.
Folder 15: Shaker Room, Wiggins Old Tavern, Northampton,
Mass. (1 postcard, SA 1687)
Folder 16: Shaker barn, North Family, New Lebanon,
N.Y. (1 stereocard; SA 1701)
Folder 17: Photos: Sarah Collins; Mount Lebanon (3 postcards [2 the same], 8 photos; SA
1708.29-.30, .35-.42)
Postcards of
Sarah Collins making chairs in 1922 and 1932.
Photos:
views of Mount Lebanon and portrait of Sister Sarah Collins as younger woman. Photo 1708.37 is labeled as having belonged
to Laura C. Holloway Langford; it was taken by Irving of Troy. SA 1708.39 also having belonged to Laura C.
Holloway Langford (see ASC 1202); others in this group may also have belonged
to her. SA 1708.42 shows interior of
meeting house with gas lights.
Folder 18: Photos: sisters and Mt. Lebanon (4
photos; SA 1708.43-.46)
Sister Sarah
(in 1929), Sister Lillian; unidentified sisters with visitors; view of South
Family, Mt. Lebanon (1933).
Folder 19: Mount Lebanon (1 stereocard; SA 1708.47)
Labeled on
back: Large house, Center Family and Ann Lee Cottage. “Return to L. C. Langford, Brooklyn.” [see ASC 1202 for Laura C. Holloway Langford
papers]
Folder 20: New Lebanon, New York (10 postcards: SA
1708.48-.57)
Village
views; interior shot; postcards of individual Shakers and groups of
Shakers. The postcard of two sisters at
a desk (SA 1708.49) belonged to Laura C. Holloway Langford (see ASC 1202). SA 1708.50 is a postcard of Elder Daniel
Offord (holding a scythe) and Brother Levi Shaw (pushing a lawn mower).
The colored
postcard was from the Shaker Museum, dated 1967.
The last
postcard is of “The old Queechy Farm house,” located in Canaan Four Corners and
made famous by Susan Warner in her novel Queechy.
Folder 21: Mount Lebanon, N.Y. (5 postcards, 1 stereocard;
SA 1708.60-.65)
A family
group; village view; exterior of buildings; no dates. The stereocard probably belonged to Laura C.
Holloway Langford (see ASC 1202); one of the postcards is marked with her
address in Brooklyn, so definitely belonged to her.
Folder 22: Shaker sisters: portraits (3 photos; SA
1708.66-.68)
Sister
Louisa Green of Canaan; Eldress Hannah Wilson of Canaan, N.Y., and Enfield,
Conn. (where she died); Sister Martha Wetherell [or Wetherall] at age 35,
Hancock, 1890.
Folder 23: Shaker sisters: postcards (20th
century) (3 postcards, SA 2003-2004)
Sister
Mildred Barker of Sabbathday Lake at Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, N.Y., 1956;
Two sisters
making sewing boxes, no place, no date;
Two sisters
knitting, sitting next to sewing desks, no place, no date
Folder 24: Pleasant
Hill, Kentucky (1 photo, 10 slides; SA 1710; SA 2086.1-.10)
Mill,
modern print made from glass plate negative.
Also
10 slides of the village taken around 1992 by William G. Johnson
Folder 25: Hancock,
Mass. (4 photos, 1 in color; SA 1709, 1711-1712, 1715)
Workshop,
barn attic, round barn.
Folder 26: New
Lebanon: production chairs (1 photo; SA 1713)
Albumen
print showing different sizes of chairs.
Folder 27: Hancock,
Mass. (3 slides; SA 1719.1-.3)
Round
barn and barrels, taken by Philip Held (gift of Held)
Folder 28: Harvard,
Mass. (slides; SA 1720.1-.24)
Folder 29: Shaker Summer Shop, Enfield, New
Hampshire (1 photo; acc. 99x91.9, also accessioned as SA 2006)
Two
sisters stand on front porch of this building
Folder 30: Sisters
Emma Neal and Sadie Neale, circa 1936 (SA 2000-2001)
Sisters Emma
and Sadie lived at Mount Lebanon; photos by Lawrence J. Peterson
Folder 31: New Lebanon, New York (SA 2073.1-.12) (5
photos, 7 postcards)
Five photos
from the series View of North Family Shakers, including portraits of Daniel
Offord, Levi Shaw, and Catherine Allen [hers is autographed], the store
interior (with sister and goods for sale), and sisters in the kitchen.
The
postcards include village views, 2
sisters among the beehives, Brother Charles Greaves with carpentry tools, and a
view of a meeting room in one of the Shaker dwellings. An organ is against one wall.
Box 10:
oversize
Folder 41: Canaan, New York (1 photo; SA 220)
Probably a
workshop; photo belonged to Anna White, dated 1901
Folder 42: Watervliet, New York (3 photos; SA
231-233)
Group of
Shakers working outside a building; 2 village views, one with boys.
Folder 49: New Lebanon, N.Y. (1 photo; SA 315)
meeting
house
Folder 52: Enfield, Connecticut, Church Family (2
photos; SA 341-342)
Exteriors of
buildings
Folder 59: Hancock, Mass. (1 photo; SA 401)
Barn
interior
Folder 60: Hancock, Mass. (1 photo; SA 403)
Village
view, with sisters and brethren
Folder 65: Groveland, N.Y. (1 photo; SA 428)
Village
view, West house, in winter
Folder 68: New Lebanon, N.Y. (2 photos; SA 465-466)
Meeting
house interiors: benches, upper loft
Folder 69: Hancock, Mass.: interior views (3
photos, SA 484-485, 488)
Steps in
laundry building; round barn; Weave Shop, print presented to Hancock Shakers by
photographer W. F. Winter, no date.
[note:
letter by Winter is in the Andrews Archives]
Folder 95: Andrews collection (1 photo, SA 674)
Bedroom:
rocker, table, bed, chest
Folder 102: Photostats and prints about Shakers (5 prints,
4 photostats; SA 712-719)
Prints:
Shaker worship; “Shakers at Meeting: The Religious Dance” and “The Final
Procession” (both from The Graphic,
May 14, 1870), “The Shakers in Niskayuna: The Singing Meeting” (2 copies, 1
small, 1 large).
Photostats:
“Sleeping-room of the Shaker Men” from Leslie’s
Magazine; “Vacuum Pan, Crushing Mill, Finishing Room” from Harper’s New Monthly Magazine; “The
Shakers in Niskayuna: Business Office”; and “Skareresses Sealing the Bottles
Containing the Shaker Extract of Roots, or Seigel’s Syrup” from The Shaker Family Almanac.
Folder 104: Shaker crosses (4 photos [3 the same]; SA
721-722)
Crosses gave
notification of closure on Sabbath and were posted outside meeting house and
office, New Lebanon, crosses made 1843.
Folder 1000: Shaker Farm, Canaan, N.Y. (1 photo, SA 1707)
Descriptive
note on the back indicates this photograph was taken by an amateur, possibly
John Roberts who was an owner of Shaker Farm, Canaan.
Folder 107a-g Hancock album [in folders, not a binder],
given to Dr. and Mrs. Andrews by Armin Landeck, no date (SA 741; trex 107) (see also Andrews Archives for obituary of
Landeck)
The photos are as follows:
.1 cupola of round barn, built 1826
.2 round barn, south side, entrance for
teams
.3 round barn, detail
.4 view from interior of round barn,
looking southeast
.5 round barn: doorway for teams
.6 interior of round barn, showing framing
.7 another view of interior of round barn
.8 Shaker sleigh with 3 seats, in carriage
shed
.9 watering trough, originally at Shirley
Shaker community (referred to in an article by William Dean Howells)
.10 barns and wood shed
.11 silos, cows, manure spreader
.12 barns on a gray day (2 copies)
.13 round barn against an overcast sky
.14 tan house (background) and ice house
(foreground)
.15 ice house
.16 tan house, west elevation (2 copies)
.17 tan house, west elevation
.18 tan house, view looking northeast
.19 section of round barn, tan house in
background
.20 round barn, looking south, date stones
above arched doorway
.21 round barn, looking south, showing
original picket fence
.22 round barn: close-up of superstructure
and cupola
.23 round barn: close-up of north doorway,
showing date stones
.24 round barn: view looking east
.25 round barn: view looking east
.26 round barn: detail of masonry
.27 round barn: detail of masonry
.28 geese and ducks
.29 geese and ducks on duck pond, west of
barn
.30 round barn: detail
.31 round barn: detail
.32 Brethren’s Shop, doorways on south side
.33 interior of Brethren’s chair shop
.34 interior of Brethren’s chair shop
.35 interior of Brethren’s chair shop
.36 Sisters’ Shop, Ministry’s wash house
(brick building), barn in background
.37 Sisters’ Shop: doorway, north side
.38 Sisters’ Shop: advertisement for Shaker
Eye and Ear Balsam
.39 arches(?) in Sisters’ Shop, formerly the
cheese room. [photo shows a boiler, not
arches]
.40 blown glass jars used in medicinal herb
industry, Sisters’ Shop
.41 blown glass jars used in medicinal herb
industry, Sisters’ Shop
.42 garden seed bowls and advertisement for
seeds, Sisters’ Shop
.43 apple coring device, Sisters’ Shop
.44 Reception Center, formerly the poultry
house, in process of restoration
.45 early stones from the Hancock burying
ground
.46 interior of Ministry wash house, showing
early stove, towel rack, dry sink
.47 Ministry wash house: bath tub
.48 interior of Ministry wash house, showing
towel rack, dry sink
.49 Ministry wash house: wooden dipper and
“boonder” for scrubbing pails and pans
.50 wash house or laundry, with machine shop
in section to left, view looking northwest
.51 laundry building, detail of stonework,
which formerly was part of a mill dam
.52 interior of laundry: section of an
ironing stove
.53 ironing room in laundry building; ironing
stove originally at New Lebanon Church family; clothes carriers on hooks in
background
.54 looking into the wash room, laundry
building, clothes carrier on hook
.55 was room, with clothes drying rack
.56 Church family dwelling (build 1830):
detail of east elevation; windows originally had smaller panes
.57 family dwelling; ministry wash house at
left, poultry house (now reception center) in background, view looking south
.58 Church family dwelling: meeting room,
north end of first floor, section of 20 foot trestle table and bench, meeting
room stove; chandelier from Tyringham community
.59 view into meeting room
.60 Church family dwelling: detail of upper
loft
.61 Church family dwelling: railing of upper
loft
.62 bonnets on peg rack
.63 towel on hanging rack
.64 spool stand and scissors
.65 pine wall cupboard
.66 child’s tilting chair on peg rack,
hanging above portable letters used in school room
.67 view of round barn
The following
were originally part of the album, but no longer with it:
.68 sacred sheet, inspiration drawing, 1843,
to be used as model for herb garden
.69 sacred sheet, inspiration drawing, 1843
Box 11: oversize
SA 2002 Enfield, Connecticut, dining room, no
date, in frame
[note: this
is same as view as SA 1659, which is a postcard dated 1908]
Box 12: oversize
SA 682 room interior, copy 2 of this print
SA 2035-2036 Andrews’ house, room interiors
SA 2037-2041 room interiors and exterior of
Andrews’ house, taken by Ezra Stoller
Box 13: Slides (SA 1326; see also boxes 14-15)
Exteriors of buildings;
Inspired drawings;
Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York
Box 14: Slides (SA 1326; see also boxes 13, 15)
Interiors;
Shaker furniture and other objects
(includes photos of Andrews’ collection)
Box 15: Slides (SA 1326; see also boxes 13-14)
Shaker sisters and brethren
(includes slide images of old prints and engravings);
Shaker presentation at Winterthur,
1987
Box 16: Photos transferred from DAPC
Folder 1: Shaker graveyard, Watervliet, New York
(SA 2091a-d)
Folder 2: watercolor: “East View of the Brick
House, Church Family, Hancock” (SA 2092)
Folder 3: gift drawings by named artists (SA
2093-2097)
Folders 4-5: gift drawings by unknown artists (SA
2098-SA 2108)
Albums on
shelf:
SA 245 Canterbury, New Hampshire: people and views
(trex 44)
This
includes views of village, interior shots of school, cheese room, print shop,
dining room, kitchen (focusing on stoves), bee keepers, and boys.
SA 1291 “Book No. II”: New England scenes, 1887-1888,
photographer unknown (trex 653)
There are 5
photos of the Shakers at Enfield, New Hampshire: Sister Sarah, cows and barn,
Shaker sisters, and a group of sisters and brethren. A photo of an onion field is not labeled as
Shaker, but was in Enfield, and could have been theirs.
In addition,
the album has photos of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Cape Breton
Island in Nova Scotia. The album opens
with photos of little Janet playing with toy ponies.
Scenes from Cape
Breton include what might be a logging camp, fishing villages, and Micmac
Indians and their birch bark wigwams.
Other photos
of interest: oxen drawing logs, light houses, rural scenes, Quidnessett Farm
[Quidnessett is a place name in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and the farm may
have been there], the ocean, streams, farm work (plowing, reaping), codfish
drying, a man mending fishing nets, men with performing bears, a wagon loaded
with cows for the cattle fair, a man training a colt to pull a wagon, and a
woman working in a summer kitchen.
Oversize, in
map case 1, drawer 5:
“Eldress Gertrude’s Flowers for the World’s People,”
photo copyright by John Seakwood, 1985, portrait of Eldress Gertrude Soule (SA
2033; gift of Seakwood)
The Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection has the
following from the series “Views of North Family Shakers at Mt. Lebanon.” The series was added to from time to time,
with lists of 29, 39, and 47 views.
[2 – group with Elder Evans – SA 147b may possibly
be this]
[4 – Eldress Sister’s sewing room, SA 6, SA 20, and SA
1426 may possibly be this]
[11- between the dwellings; SA 287 may possibly be
this; labeled on back “rear of North family dwelling”]
12 In
the Dining Room (SA 145)
13 In
the Kitchen (SA 2073.2)
14 In
the Store (SA 2073.1)
15 In
the Library (SA 144)
17 in
the path (SA 288)
19 group
with arbor (SA 149a; also a postcard)
20 group
with hedge (SA 148)
24 Sister
Catherine [M. Catherine Allen] (SA 2073.3)
25 First
and Second houses (SA 286)
26 North
Family buildings from south (SA 285)
31 Brother
Levi Shaw (SA 2073.4)
32 Elder
Daniel Offord (SA 2073.5)
33 Brother
Charles Greaves (SA 1425)
38 Kitchen
garden (SA 282)
[41 – wash room (Elder Daniel) – SA 78.1-.2 may
possibly be this]
In addition, the following are possibly part of the
views series because they are similar in format, or are marked as being by J.E.
West:
SA 146 – group of sisters and brethren
SA 295.2 – photo by West, street scene labeled
Church family
postcards of known views:
SA 283a – postcard of #26 (“North family buildings
from the south”)
SA 2073.6 – postcard of #33 (“Brother Charles
Greaves”)