American Communal Societies Quarterly Publications
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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. -
- From the Editor
- How the Harmonists Suffered Disharmony: Schism in Communal Utopias by Donald E. Pitzer
- The Story of Brother Ricardo’s Song by Darryl Charles Thompson
- Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror by Jeff Bach
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Reopening the Rare Book Room
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail from the engraved title page of Martyrer=Spiegel der Tauffs-gesinnten, druckts und verlegts der Brüderschaft in Euphratha.
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- From the Editor
- “Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed Only to Those Who Own the Presses” by Henry M. Yaple
- Two Early Photographs of Amana by Peter Hoehnle
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers Part Two: Voyages of the Shaker Ship and Other Adventures, both Legal and Social by Christian Goodwillie
- Richard W. Couper Press order form
Front cover illustration: Amana Society. Indigo Blue. Prints. [Product label]. 1890s. 7½ x 6 inches. Amana did not have the capability of four-color printing in the early 1890s so this label must have been commercially produced for the Society. According to Peter Hoehnle, the 1890s were the high point for calico production at Amana. It is likely that an outside person was commissioned to develop this label, whose design was more elaborate than the typical Amana label.
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- From the Editor
- Black Shaker Minstrels and the Comic Performance of Shaker Worship By Robert P. Emlen
- Medical Practice in the Harvard Shaker Church Family 1834-1843 By Merry B. Post
- Shaker Seminar 2010
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
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- From the Editor
- “We Live at a Great Distance from the Church”: Cartographic Strategies of the Shakers, 1805-1835 by Carol Medlicott
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers Part One: “From a Spirit of Detraction and Slander” by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Richard W. Couper Press Order Form
Front cover illustration: “A General View of our Journey and of Several States” map from the Youngs/Kendall collection. See the article by Carol Medlicott. From the Library of Congress, Geography and Maps Division.
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- From the Editor
- The History of the Shaker Gathering Order by Stephen J. Paterwic
- The Mob at Enfield
- Introduction by Elizabeth De Wolfe
- A Statement Concerning the Mob at Enfield
- The Shakers of Canterbury: Their Agriculture and Their Machinery by Elizabeth Gleason Bervy
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
- News from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: House of David Jellies and Jams [Product label]. 1950s? For more House of David ephemera recently acquired by Hamilton College Library, see p. 108-18.
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- From the Editor
- Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria’s Shaker Apostates
- Enter the World by Patricia L. Goitein
- Benn Pitman’s “Visit to the Shaker Settlement —Whitewater Village, O.”
- Introduction by David D. Newell
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- “Cummings and Goings”: The Impact of Shakerism on the Family of Edward T. Cummings by Mary Ann Haagen
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899 Goes to Press
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: The Ballance Family, ca. 1852, oil on canvas, by James Wilkins in Peoria. Courtesy of the Illinois State Museum. Depicted are Charles and Julia Ballance and seven of their children. Charles apostatized from Pleasant Hill Shaker community and settled in Peoria, Illinois. See the article by Patricia Goitein.
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- From the Editor
- Shaker Seminar 2009: Enfield and Canterbury, N.H. by Christian Goodwillie
- Shaker Messages from Mary Magdalene and John Calvin by Jane F. Crosthwaite
- Daughter of the Shakers: The Story of Eleanor Brooks Fairs by Johanne Grewell
- Birth, Life, and Death of Olive Branch, 1896-1924 by Rev. Vernon Squire
- Remembering Gus Kermes by Sandra A. Soule
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: This marvelous, newly discovered caricature is the work of an artist named Korman. It is thought to have been drawn for an as-yet-unidentified New England newspaper between 1910 and 1921. Illustrated are Hancock Shakers Alexander and Ritcho Pettiff, Gladys Smith, and Trustee Frances Hall. The Pettiffs (also spelled Pettit, or as shown in the drawing, Petete) were part of a contingent of Bulgarians who came to live with the Hancock Shakers beginning in August 1900. Ritcho arrived at Hancock on November 17, 1905, at the age of fifty-nine. Alexander arrived on January 26, 1910, at the age of sixteen. Gladys Smith left the community on May 28, 1921, at the age of twenty-four. Soon thereafter, in 1922, young Alexander Pettit left to attend an auto show, and he never returned. Frances Hall eventually became first eldress in the Central Ministry and died at Hancock on March 10, 1957.
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- From the Editor
- Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat by Carol Medlicott
- William Adee Whitehead’s Visit to the Shakers
- Introduction by Elizabeth and Scott De Wolfe
- Reprint of Text
- Letter from Richard McNemar
- Introduction by Christian Goodwillie
- Reprint of Text
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- A New Publication for the Couper Press
- Review of Robert White Jr.: “Spreading the Light of the Gospel.” By Stephen J. Paterwic
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Ambrotype image of an unidentified Shaker sister. 1850s? 9.3 x 8 cm. Among the earliest known images of a Shaker, this sixth-plate ambrotype was created by a photographer named Campbell. The frame is stamped 1854. Intriguingly, the image has hints of color. Our initial research identified two photographers named Campbell working in the United States in the 1850s, one in Jersey City, N. J., and the other in Dayton, Ohio. Tantilizingly, James Campbell of Dayton published three articles during 1853 on the novel process of heliochromy, or adding color to wet collodion process images. Could this image be that of a Watervliet, Ohio, Shaker sister? Research is ongoing in an attempt to answer that question.
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- From the Editor
- Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida
- Perfectionists, 1863-1875 by Anthony Wonderley
- Heaven is a Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: A composite image taken from the front and back covers of Cellular Cosmogony (Chicago: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1899). This work is the major theological and scientific statement of Koreshan Unity.
