1880s
GUSN-268440
Cabinet photographs of Shakers, given by a member of the Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Family in Maine. Taken in the 1880s, the photos are mostly of elders and eldresses from Sabbath Day Lake, along with a few from the Alfred, Maine ministry. They are identified by name beneath each photo. Although the majority of these are posed studio portraits, a few are more informal. They include a tintype of a man holding a team of horses and an elderly woman knitting, probably in a bedroom. Many photographers from Portland and Lewiston, Maine are represented here, as well as Elmer Chickering and J.W. Black from Boston.
Shaker (Christian sect)
portraits
men (male humans)
women (female humans)
elders
photograph albums
cabinet photographs
studio portraits
1 photograph album
PC009
Photograph albums collection
PC009.073
Gift
Gift of Eldress Prudence Stickney
New Gloucester (Cumberland county, Maine)
Portland (Cumberland county, Maine)
Lewiston (Androscoggin county, Maine)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Alfred (York county, Maine)
Black, James Wallace, 1825-1896 (Photographer)
Chickering, Elmer (Photographer)
photograph albums
cabinet photographs
studio portraits
Shakers
Item
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