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- 1 SHAKER HISTORICAL SITES:
- 2 LINKS TO RESEARCH LIBRARIES, SHAKER MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
- 2.1 Table of
- 2.2 THE MID-WEST:
- 2.3 NEW ENGLAND:
- 2.4 THE SOUTH:
- 2.5 ENGLAND:
- 2.5.1 SHAKER AND RELATED MANUSCRIPTS ON LINE:
- 2.5.2 ON-LINE DISCUSSION FORUM:
- 2.5.3 JOURNALS:
- 2.5.4 , Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
- 2.5.5 The Manifesto, published by the United Society of Shakers, Vols. I-XXIX, January 1, 1871 to December, 1899.
- 2.5.6 Shakers World
- 2.5.7 THE SHAKERS AND THE ARTS:
- 2.5.8 INTERESTING LINKS:
- 2.5.9 COMMERCIAL STUFF
- 2.5.10 Table of Products:
- 2.5.11 Herbs:
- 2.5.12 Just a Few (!) Shaker Furniture & Oval Box Sites:
- 2.5.13 Needlework:
- 2.5.14 Shaker Miniatures:
- 2.5.15 Shaker Postcards:
- 2.5.16 Shaker Baskets:
- 2.5.17 Rare Books and Manuscripts:
- 2.5.18 Shaker Photography:
- 2.5.19 Restaurants, Inns and Bed & Breakfasts:
- 2.5.20 SHAKER ANTIQUES:
- 2.5.21 Books:
- 2.5.22 Academic:
- 2.5.23 Spiritual:
- 2.5.24 Novels and Short Stories:
- 2.5.25 Cookbooks:
- 2.5.26 Shaker Furniture:
SHAKER HISTORICAL SITES:
LINKS TO RESEARCH LIBRARIES, SHAKER MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Table of
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Works & Guides [Reference Works & Guides to Library & Manuscript Collections listed in Bibliography] [#Reference Works & Guides] |
THE MID-WEST:
INDIANA:
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Indiana Historical Society [22] Library has Busro, Indiana information. |
Shaker#first_hit Lilly Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington] [23] The Byrd Family Papers. |
KENTUCKY:
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University of Kentucky Libraries-Margaret I. King Library [24] Special Collections Division has Pleasant Hill materials. |
The Filson Club Historical Society-Louisville, Ky [25] Pleasant Hill materials. |
Western KU's Kentucky Museum Furniture Collection [26] Located 12 miles from South Union. The collection includes nine examples of Shaker furniture, most notably two candle stands or tripod tables, a sewing desk and two chests of drawers. These pieces were constructed in the more worldly fashion generally characteristic of pieces made in Western Shaker villages. |
The Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University [27] Located 12 miles east of South Union Shaker Village. Extensive collection of manuscripts from South Union. |
MICHIGAN:
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The Berrien County Historical Association [28] Berrien Springs, Michigan |
William L. Clements Library [29] -University of Michigan |
OHIO:
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Western Reserve Historical Society Library [30] , Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. The most extensive collection of Shaker materials in the world. 300,000 pages of manuscripts. A |
Dunham Tavern Museum [31] , Cleveland, Ohio- Collection of Shaker Furniture. |
Shaker Historical Society-Elizabeth B. Nord Library [32] , Cleveland, Ohio. 39 items. |
Miami University [33] Shaker Collection. |
The Shaker Collection at the Dayton-Montgomery Co.Public Library [34] , Dayton, Ohio. Compiled by Elli Bambakidis. |
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio-Paul Lawrence Dunbar Library [35] WRHS Shaker collection and LC Shaker collection on microfilm. In |
Kettering-Moraine Museum (Watervliet, Ohio Shakers) [36] Collection of furniture from the Watervliet community and two buildings preserved from the site and moved to this location in Moraine, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. See the article about this museum and the Watervliet Shaker Village on our home page. |
Warren County Historical Society Museum (Union Village Collection) [37] , Lebanon, Ohio. One of the best collection of Shaker furniture and material culture west of the Allegheny Mountains. |
Ohio Historical Society / Resources / Archives-Library [38] Look up Shaker manuscripts and books in the OHS collection through |
WISCONSIN:
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Art Museum, Milwaukee [39] Shaker collection in American Folk Art Collection. |
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum [40] |
NEW ENGLAND:
CONNECTICUT:
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Connecticut State Library [41] Has a large collection of materials from Enfield, Connecticut. |
Yahoo! YP - Enfield Historical Society, Enfield, Connecticut [42] Information about Enfield Shaker site. |
New Canaan Historical Society [43] New Canaan, Connecticut. |
MAINE:
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The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Library [44] at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine, was started in 1882 by Elder Otis Sawyer. It is housed in the 1880 Shaker Schoolhouse located in the Village. Contains: books, photographs, manuscripts, ephemera, periodicals, clippings, scrapbooks, maps, oral histories and sound recordings, music, video cassettes and microfilm collections of WRHS, the N.Y. State Library, the Library of Congress, University of Kentucky and the N.Y. Public Library. It is also noted for its Radical Collection which contains printed materials about radical religious sects and communal groups all over the world. |
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The Shaker Collection at Williams College [45] , Williamstown, Massachusetts. The manuscript portion of the collection includes account books, journals and photographs, and is especially strong in spirit communications and hymnals. The core of the Shaker Collection was donated to the Williams College Library in 1931 by Edward B. Wight, Class of 1907. |
Welcome to the Berkshire Athenaeum [46] , Pittsfield, MA. Hancock and other material. Complete set of the |
Massachusetts Historical Society [47] , Boston, MA. Books and pamphlets and some manuscripts. |
Yahoo! YP - Shirley Historical Society [48] , Shirley, MA. Information about the Shirley Shaker site. |
Yahoo! YP - Art Complex Inc At Duxbury [49] Shaker furniture collection. |
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Dartmouth College: Baker Library [50] , Hanover, N.H. Books and photographs and a few manuscripts. |
Yahoo! YP - Hood Museum Of Art [51] , Hanover, N.H. Collection of Shaker objects. |
New Hampshire Historical Society Library Collections [52] Materials from Canterbury and Enfield, New Hampshire. |
Eleanor Parmenter Churchill Archive-University of New Hampshire. [53] Eleanor Parmenter arrived at the Canterbury, New Hampshire Shaker Village on June 14, 1926 - six months before her twelfth birthday. She was one of several children who, due to any number of family and social circumstances, lived among the Shakers. While under their guidance, Eleanor Parmenter attended school taught by Sister Marguerite Frost and played with the other children. She cooked, sewed, and did chores alongside the sisters and also participated in the recreational life of the Village. |
Other collections in the University of New Hampshire Shaker Collection [54] The David Proper Shaker Manuscript Collection contains over 200 titles of primary and secondary Shaker materials--pamphlets, serials, articles, broad-sides, and posters--as well as over 50 works on utopian-communal life. The collection also contains Proper's personal files with correspondence from six Shakers, catalogs, trustees' reports, and information from various Shaker organizations. In addition to the Manuscript Collection, the David Proper Shaker Book Collection (see Appendix) comprises approximately 150 books, both primary and secondary, on the Shakers and 100 books about utopian communities. The Shaker collection also includes |
VERMONT:
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Shelburn Museum [55] Shaker shed from Canterbury, N.H. and many other artifacts. |
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES:
DELAWARE:
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Winterthur Museum Garden & Library [56] Located 6 miles west of Wilmington, Delaware. The location of the Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection, named to honor America's pioneer scholar on the Shaker religious sect. It features manuscripts, books, and visual materials on the Shakers as well as the research archives compiled by Dr. Andrews. |
MARYLAND:
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Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallary Special Collections [57] University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A 3,000 volume collection of books and pamphlets forcusing on 19th century Britsh and American socialism, Shakerism and Utopian literature. |
NEW YORK STATE:
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Shaker Museum and Emma B. King Library at Old Chatham, N.Y. [58] The core of the Library's Shaker manuscript, imprint, and photographic collection was acquired by the Museum's founder, John S. Williams, Sr., directly from the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, New York, Hancock, Massachusetts, and Canterbury, New Hampshire. In 1961, the Shakers' Central Ministry, through the offices of Eldress Emma B. King, for whom the Library was named, designated the Shaker Museum "the official repository of the records of discontinued Shaker Societies." |
A Shaker Resource Guide-New York City Public Library [59] A large and comprehensive collection. |
Collections of the New York State Historical Museum [60] , Albany, N.Y. The Museum has a large and important Shaker Collection. It was begun in 1926 when the Church Family, Watervliet, Shakers sold their buildings to Albany County for the Ann Lee Home. The Shakers assisted Museum curators in gathering and documenting the materials from that community. |
New York State Library [61] , Albany, N.Y. Manuscript collection from Watervliet, N.Y., New Lebanon, Groveland, and Harvard, Massachusetts. |
Livingston County Historical Society [62] , Genesceo, N.Y. Home of the famous Groveland Fountain Stone |
Groveland, Livingston County, N.Y. [63] Description of the area and mention of the Shakers. |
Syracuse University Library [64] In this library can be found |
American Society for Psychical Research [65] , New York City. America's first research group to study psychic and paranormal activity. They have a Shaker collection. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Art-American Wing [66] A Shaker retiring room from New Lebanon, N.Y. |
Hamilton College Library [67] Clinton, N.Y. Close to 1,000 Shaker items. |
Hofstra University-Special Collections [68] Joan & Donald E. Axinn Library, West Campus. Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y. |
Buffalo & Erie County Public Library [69] Special Collection Department |
PENNSYLVANIA:
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Philadelphia Museum of Art [70] Shaker Sisters' retiring room from Mount Lebanon and other furniture and artifacts. |
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C.:
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Library of Congress Home Page [71] Use the LC's catalogue search and enjoy! |
Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room Home Page [72] The Library of Congress Shaker Collection is made up of 487 items donated by J.P. MacLean. A microfilm edition and catalogue of the LC Shaker collection on 32 reels is available. A copy of the LC Shaker Collection can be found at Wright State University, Paul Lawrence Dunbar Library. |
Library of congress WWW-Z39.50 Gateway [73] |
National Gallery of Art - Index of American Design [74] Click on |
THE SOUTH:
FLORIDA:
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Historical Museum of South Florida [75] , see #95, Catlow, Patty Munroe, The Tea Chest correspondence-Shaker correspondence. |
GEORGIA:
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The Georgia Historical Society [76] Savannah, Georgia. |
NORTH CAROLINA:
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Guide to the Cataloged Special Collections-Duke University [77] , William R. Perkins Library |
Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [78] Manuscripts Department, |
ENGLAND:
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Bath, UK-The American Museum with Shaker Collection [79] Shaker room, display gallery and library. |
SHAKER AND RELATED MANUSCRIPTS ON LINE:
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Shaker Manuscripts On-Line [80] This site has excerpts from |
Richard McNemar Page [81] contains |
Information about UMI Research Collections: Shaker Collection, 1723-1952 [82] and |
ON-LINE DISCUSSION FORUM:
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A Discussion Forum on the United Society of Believers [83] Sponsored by the University of Kentucky. 175 members. |
JOURNALS:
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The Union Seminary Quarterly Review [84] Vol. 49, #1-2, |
Communal Societies: Journal of the Communal Studies Association. [85] |
"Utopian Studies" Index [86] Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies. |
IC Web Site: Communities Magazine [87] Magazine of Intentional Communities. |
Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation [88] Published by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
, Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
The Manifesto, published by the United Society of Shakers, Vols. I-XXIX, January 1, 1871 to December, 1899.
Shakers World
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Addresses addresses of Journals [#Journal Addresses] For |
THE SHAKERS AND THE ARTS:
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and the Arts Information about the Shakers and the Arts listed in the Bibliography [#Shakers and the Arts] |
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"Shaker Made" by Ellen McBreen-Review of "The Quiet in the Land" [89] |
Institute of Contemporary Art [90] in Boston, MA. "Quiet in the Land" through end of September. |
Constantine Kermes Art Gallery [91] |
E! Online - Fact Sheet - The Shakers - Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1985) [92] by Ken Burns. |
The Parrish Art Museum: Newsletter "Shaker: The Art of Craftsmanship" [93] |
Shaker:The Art of Craftsmanship Poster [94] |
Shaker Historical Society Poster [95] by Wendell Minor, artist. |
Kindred Spirits Exhibit [96] April 21-October 8, 1995. Mingei International Museum, |
"The Shaker World" by Fran Kramer [97] . A review of exhibit at Old Chatham based on John Kirk's 1997 book, |
Shaker Gift Drawings Surface [98] by Fran Kramer & Lita Solis-Cohen. |
Lafayette College [99] : Exhibits Celebrating Shaker Design, Culture & Craftsmanship. |
Shaker Visionary Image [100] by Orville Cline. |
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Shaker Exhibition [103] at Paine Webber. |
INTERESTING LINKS:
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I Hear America Singing [135] |
Rebecca Cox Jackson: 1795-1871 [136] |
Excerpts from Gifts of Power [137] by Rebecca Cox Jackson. |
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God [138] by Ken Burns |
COMMERCIAL STUFF
Table of Products:
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Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles Books about Shaker Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles listed in Bibliography [#Shaker Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles] |
Herbs:
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and Gardening Books about Herbs and Gardens listed in Bibliography [#Herbs and Gardening] |
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Sabbathday Lake Catalog of Shaker Teas, Culinary Herbs & Rose Water [139] Help support the Sabbathday Lake Shakers through the purchase of their products. Besides herbs, the Shaker store at Sabbathday Lake sells hand sewn articles, candy, books, furniture, Shaker made oval boxes and baskets, and many other items. |
Just a Few (!) Shaker Furniture & Oval Box Sites:
Needlework:
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Shaker pincushions [218] Stitch with Sudberry: |
Julia's Needleworks [219] Ten shaker designs. |
Homespun Elegance [220] "Old Shaker Tune" Sampler, #130. |
Shaker Miniatures:
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Shaker House [221] Shaker doll house. |
Miniatures: Shaker Works West [222] by Ken Byers. |
Miniatures by George [223] by George Pennell. |
Fine Wooden Miniature Furniture by Paul W. Frazier [224] Mesquite, TX. |
Miniature Shaker Oval Boxes [225] by Eric Taylor |
Shaker Village Series [226] The Cat's Meow Shaker Series. |
Baskets "Shaker Baskets" [#Shaker Baskets] See miniature Shaker baskets listed under |
Shaker Postcards:
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Shaker Postcards [227] National Postcards: The Source For Collector Postcards. Their Shaker Page. |
Shaker Baskets:
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Shaker Fancy Baskets [228] by Martha Wetherbee & Nathan Taylor. |
Patterson's Baskets [229] Miniature baskets. |
Rare Books and Manuscripts:
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DeWolfe & Wood, Catalog 31: The Shakers & Other American Communal Groups [230] |
Shaker Photography:
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Averso Publishing [231] Exclusive supplier of 32 Pleasant Hill Shaker postcard prints by John Stines. Also, posters and Ilfochrome prints, the |
Restaurants, Inns and Bed & Breakfasts:
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Shaker Tavern - South Union, Kentucky - Bed & Breakfast Inns ONLINE [232] |
Pleasant Hill Kentucky Shaker Village Dining [233] |
Lodging at Pleasant Hill [234] 80 guestrooms on site. |
Golden Lamb - GoCinci Dining Directory [235] Menu & Information. |
The Golden Lamb Home Page [236] , Lebanon, Ohio. Site contains sample menus, gift shop info, and an excellent history of the inn. "The Golden Lamb" has a fine collection of antique Shaker furniture. |
Sunset Farm Inn in the Tyringham Valley [237] Overlooks the site of the Tyringham Shaker Village. The Inn has a collection of Shaker antiques. |
The Shaker Inn, Enfield, New Hampshire [238] |
Mary Keane House [239] Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, New Hampshire. Shaker purists may prefer a room in the Ministry House, their 1880 Shaker house. (Shaker Museum and Dana Robes Woodcraft are on the premises.) |
The Old Chatham Sheepherding Company Inn [240] located in Old Chatham, N.Y. directly across from the Shaker Museum and Library. |
SHAKER ANTIQUES:
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Willis Henry Auctions, Inc. [241] |
Equinox Antiques - Shaker [242] Manchester Center, VT. |
Kovels' On-line price guide to Shaker antiques & collectibles [243] |
Yellow House Antiques [244] Buying and selling museum quality American and Shaker antiques. Reading, VT. |
G. Eldridge Antiques [245] Glastonbury, CT. |
Sloan's On-Line [246] 32 dealers with specialty in Shaker. |
Shaker Antiques & Items in Maine [247] |
Fresh Shaker Pieces Sell Well" [248] " |
Shaker Toys [249] Owners trying to identify toys as Shaker. Were given to them as such. |
Antiques & Americana with George Michael [250] A video series of twelve 2 hour videos, 46 topics. One of the topics is "Hancock Shaker Village". |
Books:
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the Shakers Books about the Shakers are listed in the Bibliography [#About the Shakers] |
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Amazon.com: A Glance: The Shaker Experience in America [251] Review of |
NYTimes-Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives [252] A review of Priscilla J. Brewer's book. |
NYTimes-Shaker Built: The Form and Function of Shaker Architecture [253] by Paul Rocheleau & June Sprigg. |
Review-The Shaker World [254] by John T. Kirk. |
Review-Shaker Herb & Garden Book [255] by Rita Buchanan. |
Review-Shaker Medicinal Herbs [256] by Amy Bess Miller |
Review-Origins of the Shakers [257] by Clark Garrett |
Spiritual:
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Review of Skees' God Among the Shakers: A Search for Stillness & Faith at Sabbathday Lake. [258] |
Review of Shees' God Among the Shakers [259] Christian Science Monitor |
Review of Simple Gifts: A Memoir of a Shaker Village [260] : by June Sprigg. |
Shaker Advice to Children: On behavior At Table [261] Miniature Book--The Press of Ward Schori. |
Novels and Short Stories:
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Works about the Shakers Fictional Works about the Shakers listed in Bibliography [#Fictional Works about the Shakers] |
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Janice Holt Giles. [264] |
"The Shaker Bridal" from Twice-told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne [265] |
Death of a Winter Shaker [266] and |
NYTimes-The Divine Comedy of John Venner [267] by George Blake Smith. The Divine Comedy Shaker style. Mother Ann is portrayed as a spiritual guide to John Venner who seeks paradise stumbling through his own purgatory and hell. The last Shaker sister, Sabbathday Wells, is John's Beatrice. |
Amazon.com-The Divine Comedy of John Venner [268] by George Blake Smith. Another review. |
NYTimes-Perfect Agreement [269] by Michael Downing. The Shakers of Kentucky are a subplot in this novel. |
Amazon.com-Perfect Agreement [270] by Michael Downing. Another review. |
Cookbooks:
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Books Shaker Cook Books listed in Bibliography [#Cook Books] |
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NYTimes-Shaker Your Plate by Sr. Frances Carr [271] A review of Sr. Frances' great cookbook. The review includes the following recipes: chicken tarragon, Sr. Marie's potatoes, Shaker stewed tomatoes and lemon pie. I use the book all the time. Get a copy. Help support the the Shakers and buy it from Sabbathday Lake. |
NYTimes-In a Shaker Kitchen [272] A N.Y.Times review of Norma MacMillian's book. Includes recipes for Shaker applesauce and cinnamon sour cream cookies. |
Shaker Recipes On-Line: |
Shaker Furniture:
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Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles Books about Furniture and other Collectibles are listed in the Bibliography [#Shaker Furniture, Crafts and Collectibles] |
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NYTimes-The Shaker Chair [273] by Charles R. Muller & Timothy D. Rieman. |
The complete Book of Shaker Furniture, Rieman & Burks [274] A review. |
Shaker Legacy:Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style, C.Becksvoort [275] A review. |
Review of [276] by Joy Krause. |
Amazon.com-The Shaker Legacy [277] by Christian Becksvoort. A review. |