American Communal Societies Quarterly Publications
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- From the Editor
- “Virtual Communities”: The Anarchist Press at Home, Washington by Holly Folk
- Insights into Harvard Shaker History by Michael Volmar
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail of the woodcut showing the main hall of the Boston Temple from the front cover of The Law and Method of Spirit-Culture. See pp. 195-97.
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- From the Editor
- The Role of Women in Hopedale, a Nineteenth-Century Universalist-Unitarian Utopian Community in South-Central Massachusetts By Deirdre Corcoran Stam
- “Father retains his love of Shakerdom”: The Journals of Wendell P. Elkins, 1874-1929 By Galen Beale
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- House of David Basketball Team Photos By Mark Tillson
Front cover illustration: Detail of a picture showing House of David basketball player Bob Hallisey, the team captain, in a warmup for a game played in Sitka, Alaska, on February 11, 1950. See pages 155-60 for more information.
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- From the Editor
- The Tyringham Shakers by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Tyringham by the Numbers by Stephen J. Paterwic
- The Greatest Mystery of the Tyringham Shakers Unmasked by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Tyringham Fact Sheet by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Necrology for the Shaker Society at Tyringham, Massachusetts by Stephen J. Paterwic
Front cover illustration: View of the Tyringham Church Family from the north, late-nineteenth century, probably post-Shaker. 5.25 x 7.25 inches.
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- From the Editor
- Oneida Community Gender Relations — In Context and Over Time by Anthony Wonderley
- The Passing Hour: An Unrecorded Shaker Periodical
- Magnetism Among the Shakers by C. M. Sedgwick
- A Comparison of the Shaker Medicinal Herb Industries in Mount Lebanon and Groveland, New York By Paige Cross
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- From the Editor
- The Miller Collection Comes to Hamilton College Library by M. Stephen Miller
- An Interview with Steve Miller conducted by Christian Goodwillie
- Selections from the Miller Collection by M. Stephen Miller
Front cover illustration: A. J. White label die proofs. From the M. Stephen and Miriam R. Miller Collection. Steve Miller writes:
In 1993, a dealer in postage stamps from California sent me fifty-nine items “out of the blue” with a cover letter that opened: “Enclosed is the collection of Mother Seigel’s [Syrup] die proofs as found in the Waterlow archive. Possibly this is every known example.” This product, also known in this country as “The Shaker Extract of Roots,” was a joint venture of the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., with a physician/entrepreneur named Andrew Judson White. With a bit of searching on my own, I learned that Waterlow & Sons was an extremely fine engraving and printing firm in London, responsible not only for exquisite labels but also for most of the stamps used in the British Empire. When they went out of business in the 1990s, this man purchased their complete archives. This group of labels, dating from 1872 to 1943, is unique. A die proof is a first-proof pressing and is always archived before a production run. -
- From the Editor
- The Richmond Family and the Shakers by Stephen J. Paterwic
- Communal Vegetarianism: The Sacred Diet of Mary’s City of David by Julieanna Frost
- Johann Christoph Müller: Harmonist Pioneer, Composer, and Apostate by Emily Lapisardi
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Purnell, Mary. The Comforter: The Mother’s Book. 1st ed. Benton Harbor, Mich.: Israelite House of David, [1908]-1912. 2 v. (iv, 208 pp.; iii, 144 pp.). ill. (some col.). 17-22 cm. Detail from front cover.
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- From the Editor
- Daniel Pierce Thompson and “The Shaker Lovers”: Portraying the Shakers in Fiction and on the Stage By Brian L. Bixby and Jill Mudgett
- “The mighty hand of overruling providence”: The Shaker Claim to America By Jane F. Crosthwaite
- A Treasury of Shaker Ephemera Rediscovered at the Western Reserve Historical Society By Christian Goodwillie
Front cover illustration: Two copies of a handbill announcing the new postal address for Mount Lebanon. To avoid confusion with the town of New Lebanon, the Shaker community was assigned its own post office with a distinct name. These handbills were found at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Shaker Collection. For more information see the article beginning on page 112.
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- From the Editor
- Brother Ricardo Belden Revisited by Magda Gabor-Hotchkiss
- The Amana Church Society: Community, Continuity and Change by Peter Hoehnle
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers, Part Three: “Calvin” versus “A Lover of Truth,” Abusing Caleb Rathbun, the Death of Joseph Meacham and the Tale of His Sister by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Conservation of the Earliest Known Shaker Architectural Image: The Ambrotype of the South Family, Harvard, Massachusetts
Front cover illustration: Photograph (ambrotype). Harvard, Massachusetts, Shaker village, ca. 1860. See page 64 for the history of this image and an account of its preservation.
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- From the Editor
- The Harvard Shaker Cemetery by Roben Campbell
- The Tribulations of the White Water Shakers: The Child Molestation Trial of 1840 by Thomas Sakmyster
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: [Postcard]. Shaker Burying Ground, Harvard, Mass. [detail]. The picture shows the Harvard Shaker cemetery with both stone and metal markers.
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- From the Editor
- Peter Ayers, Defender of the Faith by Galen Beale
- Free Press of the House of Israel: The First Publication of Benjamin Purnell Reprint
- Commentary by R. James Taylor
- Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes’ Mission
- Statement for the Oneida Community by Anthony Wonderley
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- New Publications from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: Garden Seeds, Raised at New-Lebanon, Columbia County, New-York, and put up in papers, for sale by [blank]. [Albany: Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen, between 1816 and 1824]. 33 x 21 cm.
Hamilton College has recently acquired this seed order form, one of the earliest known examples printed for the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community. An example similar to this one is in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society but there are distinct typographical and a few price differences between the two. Neither is dated, and the date range given for this example is based on the cataloging of the example at AAS. The Hamilton College copy has the “N.B.” (nota bene, or note well) post-script about ordering seeds in July, which is not present on the AAS copy. Additionally, the Hamilton copy has been completed in manuscript, while the AAS example was never completed.
