@article{Belfit2016,
       author = "Belfit, Robert and Crabtree, Lynn and Williams, Patricia",
       title =  {{Reminiscences of the Shakers and Shaker Collecting by Robert and Hazel Belfit}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/1e9fc802-8ce4-4adc-9f27-1977fdcbcd41}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2016,
       month = oct,
       volumen = {10},
       number = {4},
       pages = {201--226},
}

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Date

October 2016

Available After

2019-10-01

Description

A transcription of a manuscript from Hamilton College's Special Collections by Robert Belfit with additional material provided by the author's grandchildren. The manuscript records the detailed interactions of a husband and wife who had befriended the Shakers at Hancock, Mount Lebanon, Watervliet, and eventually Canterbury and Sabbathday Lake, beginning in the 1920s. Additionally, it provides rich insight into what it was like to visit those communities at that time, and to collect antiques from their members.

Type of Work

• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

10

Issue

4

First Page

201

Last Page

226

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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