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New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1875-1889.

Title: New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1875-1889.

Chiefly correspondence, but also including poetry, penmanship books, notes, and one deed, of Sabbathday Lake (New Gloucester), Me., Shakers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70942847 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. Cash accounts : cow barn and greenhouse, 1897-1901.

Title: Cash accounts : cow barn and greenhouse, 1897-1901.

Account book containing records for the cow barn, greenhouse, and farm crops sold by the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.

ArchivalResource: 153 p. (some p. blank)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70938226 View

May, Wendell, 1900-. Oral history interview with Wendell May, 1985 Apr. 26.

Title: Oral history interview with Wendell May, 1985 Apr. 26.

Interview with May, who grew up in the workmen's house by the Sabbathday Lake mill, attended Shaker school, and worked on the farm for many years.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70952286 View

Sawyer, Otis, 1815-1884. Management of industries, Sabbathday Lake, 1877-1880.

Title: Management of industries, Sabbathday Lake, 1877-1880.

Account book containing descriptions of the farm, mill, herbs, and other industries at the Sabbathday Lake community, including notes by the overseer of each industry.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940864 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. Diary notes, ca. 1960.

Title: Diary notes, ca. 1960.

Diary containing descriptions of daily farm life, maps, and diagrams of the community's outlet lots.

ArchivalResource: ca. 110 p. (chiefly blank)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70937723 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1890-1899.

Title: New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1890-1899.

Chiefly correspondence and writings of Sabbathday Lake (New Gloucester), Me., Shakers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70943137 View

Evans, F. W. (Frederick William), 1808-1893. New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1887-1941.

Title: New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1887-1941.

Chiefly correspondence, invoices, notes, financial papers, poems, hymns, and other papers, of/or relating to members of Mount Lebanon, the Shaker community at New Lebanon, N.Y. Also includes poem/hymn (2 copies, originally composed 1851, written out in 1906) by Hollister, entitled "Celestial Joys"; account (1913) of South Family Sisters, Mt. Lebanon, Sarah Collins, manager, on billhead of R.M. Wagan & Co., sole manufacturers of Shaker chairs; memorial (1917) honoring Brother Henry George, of Watervliet, N.Y., and Mt. Lebanon; notes (1921) regarding a tour of Mt. Lebanon, describing community members, the chair industry, and candies made by Sarah Collins; proposal (1929?) that the Church Family property be sold and used as a boarding school for boys; letters (2 items, 1933 and between 1935 and 1947) from Sarah Collins to Mrs. Mary Hirshburg, concerning the sale of braided rugs and a stool, the illnesses of Sarah Burger and others, and the fact that when a Shaker dies, there is no one to replace him; accounts by a touring visitor (ca. 1940) of Mt. Lebanon and Hancock, Mass., listing buildings seen, chairs and rugs made by Sarah Collins, the laundry at Hancock, and a visit to Mt. Lebanon by P.T. Barnum who purchased blankets for his elephants; and letter (1940 Mar. 25) from Ella Winship to Mary Hirshburg, expressing appreciation for an Easter card.

ArchivalResource: .5 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953892 View

Miscellaneous Shaker photographs : oversized pictures of people, [18--]-[early 1900s].

Title: Miscellaneous Shaker photographs : oversized pictures of people, [18--]-[early 1900s].

Fifty-one large photographs (chiefly reprints), mounted on black boards, of various Shaker views, mainly reflecting buildings and people at work at New Lebanon, N.Y., Canterbury, N.H., and New Gloucester (Sabbathday Lake), Me.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70952088 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. Cash-book for Meservey's book-keeping, single entry, 1892 Sept. 29-1896 Dec. 31.

Title: Cash-book for Meservey's book-keeping, single entry, 1892 Sept. 29-1896 Dec. 31.

Account book containing farm and greenhouse cash and expense accounts for the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community. Includes accounts of Wilson & Wing Co., an internal company formed by Delmer Wilson and Chellis Wing to run the greenhouse.

ArchivalResource: 21 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940629 View

Sawyer, Otis, 1815-1884. Elder Otis's figures on cost of lumber & brick for this brick house in 1883, 1883.

Title: Elder Otis's figures on cost of lumber & brick for this brick house in 1883, 1883.

Account book containing entries reflecting the costs and amount of lumber sawed at the Shaker mill and building costs for the dwellinghouse at Sabbathday Lake. Includes accounts and notes written by John Vance and Delmer Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 74 p. (many blank)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940618 View

Vance, John Bell, 1833-1896. Alfred, Me., single sheet manuscripts, 1880-1983 (bulk 1880-1931).

Title: Alfred, Me., single sheet manuscripts, 1880-1983 (bulk 1880-1931).

Correspondence, receipts, certificates, agreements, and other papers, reflecting the history of the Alfred, Me., Shaker community. Also includes materials from the Ministry at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., relating to the apointment of Eva M. Libby, Harriett N. Coolbroth, and Edith F. Gardner (1927) and Prudence A. Stickney, Delmer C. Wilson, and Jennie Mathers (1931) as trustees at the Alfred community; letters (1931) from Bro. Stephen E. Gowen, Alfred, to Bro. Delmer C. Wilson, Sabbathday Lake, reflecting the move of the Alfred Shakers to Sabbathday Lake, Alfred property values, and the disposal of farm equipment and livestock; and letters (1931) from Delmer Wilson, written to Bro. Denis Antoine of the Brothers of Christian Instruction, La Prairie, Qué., about their purchase and transfer of the Shaker properties at Alfred.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70939274 View

Bean, Myra. Canterbury, N.H., single-sheet manuscripts, 1837 Nov. 29-1926 Apr. 4.

Title: Canterbury, N.H., single-sheet manuscripts, 1837 Nov. 29-1926 Apr. 4.

Chiefly correspondence (some letters with envelopes), poems, recipes, songs, spirit writings, postcards, and other papers, of members of the Shaker community at Canterbury, N.H. Also includes letter (1859 Sept. 23) from David Parker to H.D. Robertson, Warner, N.H., ordering white pine for construction of washing machines; letter (1860 Mar. 12) from U.S. representative M.W. Tappan, Washington, D.C., to Mrs. C.L.T. Carr, referring to Parker's visit and the sending of speeches to Shaker girls in New Hampshire; poems written by Abraham Perkins, Mary Whitcher, Abby Joanna Trull, and others; letter (1875 Sept. 19) from Alexander Cochran, Canterbury to Henry Green, Alfred, regarding Green's sales trip to the mountains, Shaker meetings held, and the lack of recruitment of new members; letters from Julia J. Briggs and others to Delmer C. Wilson, SDL, expressing appreciation for photographs and including many spiritual sentiments; letters from Miriam Wall to Emma King, Canterbury; pattern instructions addressed to Ada S. Cummings, SDL; and letters from Lillian Phelps and other Shaker women in Canterbury to Mildred Barker, Alfred, regarding music lessons and other subjects.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70961122 View

New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1860-1941.

Title: New Lebanon, N.Y., single-sheet manuscripts, 1860-1941.

Chiefly correspondence, inventories, circulars, poems, legal papers, receipts, invoices, and other papers, of/or relating to Mount Lebanon, the Shaker community at New Lebanon, N.Y. Also includes letter (1864) from Eliza Ann Taylor to Mary Whitcher, Canterbury, reflecting the motto "Hands to Work and Hearts to God"; sketch of a society meeting (8 p., 1865 Apr. 23), pertaining to the annual meeting led by Elder Daniel Boler; letter (1869 Apr. 19) from Betsy Bates, to Eldress Ann (Eliza Ann Taylor), Mt. Lebanon, written from the "spirit land" of her death (1869 Mar. 3); note (1869 July 10) from Sarah Bates to Esdresses Ann and Polly Langford, welcoming them home; description of Sabbath meeting at Mt. Lebanon (1870 Apr. 17); receipts (2 items, 1871-1872) of Sarah Ann Lewis, concerning fancy goods purchased at Mt. Lebanon and Bridgeport, Conn.; right of way agreement (1880 Aug. 20) giving free access to Benjamin Gates to the coal sheds at Lebanon Springs, N.Y.; letters (2 items, 1882, 1883) from Benjamin Gates to Otis Sawyer, Sabbathday Lake, concerning a new dwelling house at New Gloucester and losses in the garden seed business; account (1883) of days worked at the pill shop; and letter (1886) from A.J. White, agent for Shaker medicines in New York, N.Y., to C.H. Williams, requesting that Williams become a commission agent for the sale of Kaskine. Also includes letter (1887 June 3) from F.W. Evans, aboard steamer State of Georgia, at sea, en route to England and Scotland, describing rough seas, whales, icebergs, and lectures given while on ship; letters (1896-1898) from Joseph Holden, Mt. Lebanon, to William Dumont, Sabbathday Lake (SDL), relating to the apple crop, impending visits, health, and other subjects; letters (1904, 1910) from Alonzo G. Hollister to Br. Delmer Wilson, SDL, asking spiritual questions and reflecting on the deaths of sisters Aurelia Mace and Agnes Lee and brother Joseph Quinn; account (1913) of South Family sisters, Mt. Lebanon, managed by Eldress Sarah Collins, written on the billhead of R.M. Wagan & Co., manufacturers of Shaker chairs; and accounts and other materials on the manufacture of the chairs, rugs, medicinal extracts, and fancy goods.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953893 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. Scrapbooks, 1914-ca. 1940.

Title: Scrapbooks, 1914-ca. 1940.

Scrapbooks containing greeting cards and postcards, the latter being printed by Mace.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70950680 View

Wilson, Delmer Charles, 1873-1961. Cash book - Trustees, 1927-1961.

Title: Cash book - Trustees, 1927-1961.

Account books, kept by Wilson, reflecting income and charges for the Shaker mill, Shaker boxes, manual labor, the farm, etc.

ArchivalResource: 10 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70940872 View

Dumont, William, 1851-1930. New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1900-1925.

Title: New Gloucester single-sheet manuscripts, 1900-1925.

Correspondence, mss., certificates, receipts, songs, envelopes, copybooks, declarations of trust, and other papers, of members of the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake (New Gloucester), Me.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70943140 View

Parker, David, 1807-1867. Canterbury, N.H., single-sheet manuscripts, 1849-1926.

Title: Canterbury, N.H., single-sheet manuscripts, 1849-1926.

Chiefly correspondence (some letters with envelopes), poems, songs, greeting cards, circulars, and other papers, of members of the Shaker community at Canterbury, N.H. Also includes letters from Henry C. Blinn (1861) and Betsy J. Kaime (1864) to Otis Sawyer, SDL, reflecting daily events, the health of community members, vegetarian diets, and Kaime's safe journey home; description of the Canterbury Shaker village (1874) copied from The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire, compiled by Alonzo J. Fogg; letter (1874 Oct. 11) from Mary L. Miller to Joseph Brackett, SDL, recalling visits to Maine and describing a meeting of Shakers in Franklin, N.H., held for the "World's People"; verses and complimentary cards from Mary Whitcher to Henry Green, Alfred; and letter (1875 Sept. 19) from Alexander Cochran to Green, relating to sales trips, visiting tourists, the holding of local meetings to explain Shakerism, a visit from Henry Cummings of Enfield, N.H., and the report of James Hartley in England promoting the Shakers to the British. Also includes letters (1901-1903) from Chellis Wing, Julia J. Briggs, Mary Ann Wilson, Lucy A. Shepard, and Sarah F. Wilson to Br. Delmer Wilson, SDL, relating to new agricultural machinery at Canterbury, building repairs, grain prices, gardening, visits to SDL, the weather, etc.; plan (1903) of Canterbury Shaker village drawn by Delmer Wilson, showing 34 buildings; journal excerpt (1903) prepared by Jessie Evans, detailing the revision and reprinting of the Canterbury Shaker Music Book; Christmas letters from or to Miriam Wall, Emma King, Edith Green, and Alice M. Howland; and several letters, chiefly on daily affairs written to Mildred Barker, Alfred, by various Canterbury sisters, including Lillian Phelps, Annie Baker, and Jessie Evans.

ArchivalResource: .5 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953891 View

Sawyer, Otis, 1815-1884. A complete register of all the deaths that have occu[r]red in the United Societies of Gorham and New Gloucester, Maine, 1881-1890?.

Title: A complete register of all the deaths that have occu[r]red in the United Societies of Gorham and New Gloucester, Maine, 1881-1890?.

Register, with preface (1882) and index, chiefly compiled by Sawyer, of deaths in the Shaker communities of Gorham and New Gloucester (Sabbathday Lake), with later records kept by Aurelia Mace, Ada Cummings, Delmer Wilson, R. Mildred Barker, and Arnold Hadd after Sawyer's death. Includes deaths of distinguished persons at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., and other communities and the names of Maine Shakers whose ages exceed ninety years.

ArchivalResource: 217 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70938043 View