| Book | Save | 8 | Title: | Old Shakertown and the Shakers: a brief history of the rise of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, the establishment of the Pleasant Hill colony, their beliefs, customs, and pathetic end
| | | Creator: | Hutton, Daniel Mac-Hir. | | | | Hutton, Jane Bird. | | | Publication: | Harrodsburg Herald Press, Harrodsburg, Ky,c1987. | | | Call #: | BX9772 H985 1987 | | | Extent: | 70, [10] p. : ill. ; 22 cm. | | | Subjects: | Shakers -- Kentucky -- Pleasant Hill | Pleasant Hill (Ky.) -- History
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Manuscript Collection | Save | 12 | Title: | Shaker Manuscripts
| | | Creator: | Shaker Communities | | | Dates: | 1723-1952 | | | Abstract: | The Shakers were a religious communal society founded and originally led by Mother Ann Lee, who came to America from England in 1774. By 1826 communities were established throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as in Georgia and Florida. In 1911 Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, began collecting Shaker memorabilia. The collection consists of covenants, laws, legal records, land records, financial records, membership records, correspondence, diaries, journals, testimonies, biographies, addresses, sermons, essays, inspired writings and drawings (also known as spirit drawings), other writings, music, poetry, recipes, prescriptions, school books, instructional texts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to 20 Shaker communities located in 10 eastern States. | | | Call #: | MS 3944 | | | Extent: | 122.00 linear feet (392 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 121 reels of microfilm) | | | Subjects: | Shakers -- Archives. | Shakers -- United States -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography. | Shakers -- United States. | Shakers -- Manuscripts. | Shakers -- Statistics. | Shakers -- Correspondence. | Shakers -- Personal narratives. | Shakers -- Biography. | Shakers -- Government. | Shakers -- Cookbooks. | Shakers -- Formulas, recipes, etc. | Shakers -- Education. | Shakers -- Songs and music. | Shakers -- Sermons. | Sermons, American. | American poetry -- Shaker authors. | Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions. | Shakers -- Maine -- Alfred. | Shakers -- New Hampshire -- Canterbury. | Shakers -- Connecticut -- Enfield. | Shakers -- New Hampshire -- Enfield. | Shakers -- New York (State) -- Groveland. | Shakers -- New York (State) -- Sodus (Town) | Shakers -- New York (State) -- Mount Lebanon. | Shakers -- New York (State) -- Watervliet. | Shakers -- Massachusetts -- Hancock. | Shakers -- Massachusetts -- Harvard. | Shakers -- Massachusetts -- Shirley. | Shakers -- Massachusetts -- Tyringham. | Shakers -- Maine -- Sabbathday Lake. | Shakers -- Ohio -- North Union. | Shakers -- Ohio -- Union Village. | Shakers -- Ohio -- Watervliet. | Shakers -- Ohio -- Whitewater. | Shakers -- Indiana -- West Union. | Shakers -- Florida. | Shakers -- Kentucky -- Pleasant Hill. | Shakers -- Kentucky -- South Union. | Spirit writings. | Shaker drawing. | Visions in art.
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