Lot 231: Large Shaker Ephemera Collection

Scrapbook postcards from early 1900’s of Harvard Shaker buildings, Shaker Sister’s outdoors, interior scenes, tintype of a Sister in a summer bonnet, large cabinet card of “Elder Elijah Myrick, Harvard Shakers, Rare postcard of Brother Arthur West and Sister’s Alice Chavas and Lilian Chavas”, Harvard, Mass.; Carte-de-visite of Brother Augustus Browner, Harvard, 1825 Christian Register Newspaper; Postcards from other communities such as Mt. Lebanon, NY, Enfield, NH, Canterbury, NH, buildings and Shakers, C.H. Sarles, basket collection, Sister’s weaving palm leaf, many interior buildings, Bertha Lindsay, panoramic view of Canterbury; Hancock Gift Shop, Round Barn, etc.; Sabbathday Lake, ME, Prudence Stickney, Lake View House, many buildings, 1908 Selden (Shaker’s first automobile), stereo card of Canterbury, NH dining room, labels, pamphlets, and booklets, as “Fourth Edition Shakers, Compendium, F.W. Evans 1867.”; a Shaker 192 page handwritten letter in pen To Anna C. White in Mt. Lebanon from Ann Maria G. Dec. 31, 1855; a 1950 scrapbook called “Shakers and Quakers”, snapshot photos of Shaker buildings, Canterbury, Harvard, etc.; (ex. Pat Hatch collection). 

Estimate: $1,000-1,500