Shakers, United Society of Believers papers and photographs, 1938-1965

Author

Processed by: Archives Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by:Eric Weig

Title

Shakers, United Society of Believers papers and photographs

Date

1938-1965

Repository

University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art LibraryLouisville, Kentucky 40292

Conditions Governing Access note

Open to researchers

Preferred Citation Note

[Identification of item], Shakers, United Society of Believers papers and photographs, 1938-1965, Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library, University of Louisville, Louisville.

Extent

0.5 linear ft.

Scope and Content

This collection of research material was compiled by Adele Brandeis. The material includes extensive information gathered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on the tenets, organization, worship, communities, reputation, leading personalities, daily life, dress, education of children, handicrafts and industries of the United Society of Believers, with a bibliography. There are also pamphlets and articles on the Pleasant Hill Colony at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and the Darrow School in Lebanon, New York. A 1965 letter from Sister Mildred Barker, of the Shaker Quarterly, Sabbathday Lake, in Maine asks Brandeis to contribute an article to Shaker Quarterly.

An unrelated collection in the Photographic Archives documents the Shaker community at Pleasant Hill with twenty-three silver gelatin prints by Walter Creese, University of Louisville art professor, showing architectural details of the community now known as Shakertown, Kentucky, before its restoration.

Subjects

• Kentucky/Appalachian History