The Winterthur Library

 Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection

Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum

5105 Kennett Pike, Winterthur, DE  19735

302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Henry, John R.                                   

Title:               John R. Henry Papers on the Shakers

Dates:             circa 1959-1990

Call No.:         ASC 1393

Acc. No.:        SA 2072

Quantity:        2 boxes

Location:        29 E 5

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

John R. Henry was a United States Air Force officer who retired to Ephrata, Pennsylvania.  He had a long time interest in Shakers and was concerned in preserving their communities.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Assortment of books, articles, brochures, some notes, and a little correspondence about the Shakers and their communities, especially those which became museums.  Includes postcard views, mostly of museum spaces, but also a few from the early 20th century.  Aerial photos of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, were taken when the highway still ran through the center of the community.   Publications include pamphlets written by the Shakers as well as books about them.  A little information about other religious and communal societies is also found.

 

           

 

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

           

Gift of Lt. Col. John R. Henry.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

 

Topics:

            Shakers.

            Shakers - Kentucky - Pleasant Hill - Photographs.

Religious communities - United States.         

                        Postcards.

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location:  29 E 5

 

 

Box 1:

 

Folder 1:          Articles about Shakers and Shaker communities

 

Folder 2:          Correspondence and notes, chiefly 1959-1964

 

Folder 3:          Postcards of Shaker communities and exhibits

 

Folder 4:          Postcards and photographs: chiefly Sabbathday Lake, Maine, and Canterbury, New Hampshire, July 1959

 

Folder 5:          Shaker communities: Kentucky

 

Folder 6:          Shaker communities: Kentucky: Pleasant Hill: photos, circa 1962

 

Folder 7:          Shaker communities: Massachusetts

 

Folder 8:          Shaker communities: New Hampshire

 

Folder 9:          Shaker communities: New York

 

Folder 10:        Shaker communities: Ohio

 

Folder 11:        Shaker Museum (Old Chatham, N.Y.)

 

Folder 12:        Other communal and religious societies

 

 

 

Box 2: Publications

 

Folder 1:          Periodicals: The Shaker Quarterly, v. 2, no. 1 (summer 1962);

                                    Shaker Spirit, premier issue (May 1989)

 

Folder 2:          New York State Museum publications: The New York State Museum’s Historical Survey and Collection of the New York Shakers, by Charles C. Adams, 1941 (2 copies)

 

Folder 3:          New York State Museum publications: The Community Industries of the Shakers, by Edward D. Andrews, 1933

 

Folder 4:          Recapturing Wisdom’s Valley: The Watervliet Shaker Heritage, 1775-1975, by Dorothy M. Filley, 1975

 

Folder 5:          We Make You Kindly Welcome, by Elizabeth C. Kremer, copyright 1970, printed 1988 [recipe book]

 

Folder 6:          Assorted pamphlets:

                                    “The American Shakers,” no date (2 copies; same text as ASC 19, perhaps a reprint of that as these do not seem to have been printed as early as 1910);

                                    “The Canterbury Shakers,” by Aida Elam, June 1959;

                                    “About the Shakers,” by Marguerite Frost, Canterbury, N.H., 1958; same text as ASC 242, but with date printed on cover;

                                    “A Shaker’s Viewpoint,” by Eldress Emma B. King, June 1959 (3 copies; same as ASC 298);

                                    “Who are the Shakers?” by B. Lillian Phelps, 1959 (2 copies);

                                    “How I Came to be a Shaker,” by George M. Wickersham, reprint of 1891 pamphlet, done in 1952 by the Shaker Village Work Camp, Mount Lebanon.