Publications
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Shaker Studies, no. 8. 97 pages, illustrations, 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-10-7 ($35)
Stark images and inspired messages appear in Shaker cut-and-fold booklets, one of the more unusual forms of gift drawings created in the early 1840s during the Shakers’ internal revival known as Mother’s Work. This study unfolds some of the puzzling aspects of these heavenly communications. The Shaker concept of union is embodied in the mysteriously decorated, interleaved sheets bearing prophetic spiritual messages. New findings about the visionary activities of Emily Babcock point to her as the instrument of these uniquely constructed gift drawings. This volume features full color facsimiles of a number of examples.Topic -
- From the Editor
- Zion’s Whistleblowers: Reflections on Shaker Apostate and Anti-Shaker Writings
- & Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850: An Expanded Table of Contents with Annotations and Notes by Carol Medlicott
- A Postscript to Writings of Shaker Apostates and Anti-Shakers, 1782-1850: New Light on Benjamin West, William Scales, Benjamin Green, and Zebulon Huntington by Christian Goodwillie
Front cover illustration: Benjamin Green, Shaker apostate from Enfield, New Hampshire. This image probably dates to c.1860. This version was sourced from the article by Frank West Rollins, “The Old North End: Concord,” Granite Monthly 22, no. 6 (June 1897): 337.
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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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Shaker Studies, no. 5. 188 pages, illustrations, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-07-7 ($20)
Shaker leaders built big dairy barns, sent articles and barn diagrams to the specialized agricultural press, and hosted editors and writers on barn tours. This richly illustrated book explores the unexpected relationship between nineteenth century Shaker religious leaders and scientific agricultural journalists.Topic -
Shaker Studies, no. 6. 142 pages, illustrations, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-08-4 ($20)
A compilation of essays and statistical information on the Tyringham Shakers, by one the leading scholars on that community. It is the largest compilation of information on Tyringham in one source. It includes a series of rare of photographs of the village.Topic -
Shaker Studies, no. 7. 45 pages, illustrations, 2013.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-09-1 ($30)
Reproduces four sixteen-page manuscript books by Eleanor Potter which record her spirit messages for the leaders of the Shaker Ministry. These manuscripts include spirit drawings as well as text. Crosthwaite provides an introductory essay setting the context for the messages and an analysis of them.Topic -
- 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.
