Oneida Community photograph collection, 1845-1982.

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Oneida Community photograph collection, 1845-1982.

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Portraits (1845-1910), stereographs (1865-1885), albums (1850-1982), and photographs (1860-1940) of the Oneida Community, its members, their descendants, activities, properties, businesses, and the landscape around Oneida, N.Y. The bulk of the collection dates from 1860 to 1930 and includes photographs taken by members of the Community. Later photographs focus on the Oneida Community Mansion House and Oneida Ltd. One series of photographs of Sherrill, N.Y. was taken ca. 1935 by Samuel Chamberlain. Includes stereographs of other subjects (such as The Acropolis) probably collected by Community members. Also includes twenty albums compiled by the Historical Committee of photographic prints of Oneida Community members and descendants, and Oneida Community Ltd. boards, agents, displays, and events.

ca. 7,000 items

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6865545

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886

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Smith, D. Edson

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Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975

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Moses Pond (1787-1873): lawyer; Connecticut State representative (1837-1855); and selectman of Wolcott, Connecticut. From the guide to the Samuel Chamberlain postcard and photograph collection documenting Yale University, circa 1940, (Manuscripts and Archives) Samuel and Narcissa Chamberlain were noted authorities in the field of gastronomy. In 1974 they donated their collection of over 800 cookbooks from France, Italy, Great Britain, and the United States to the Arthur and ...

Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in the town of Oneida in Madison County, New York. Noyes, born in Vermont in 1811, attended Dartmouth College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological College and received his license to preach in 1834. He formed his first utopian community in 1836 in Putney, Vermont, practicing "complex marriage" in which every male was considered married to every female. In 1847 pending arrests for adulter...

Hinds, William A.

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Oneida, ltd.

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The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1885) and his followers, was a religious utopian community practicing Perfectionism from 1848 to 1880 in Oneida, N.Y., with branch communities in other locations. When the Oneida Community dissolved in 1880, its business interests were organized as a joint stock company known as Oneida Community Ltd. Its primary business was manufacturing silverware. In 1935 the name was changed to Oneida Ltd. From the description of Oneida L...