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"The Picturesque Shakers" and "Hands to Work: Picturing the Shakers as Handicraft Workers in 19th Century Photographs"

@article{Emlen2024, author = "Emlen, Robert P.", title = {{"The Picturesque Shakers" and "Hands to Work: Picturing the Shakers as Handicraft Workers in 19th Century Photographs"}}, howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/2c471a8a-2f4e-4d4c-9189-6aff3b51d3c6}", publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections}, journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly}, year = 2024, month = apr, volumen = {18}, number = {2}, pages = {169--212}, }
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@article{Emlen2024,
       author = "Emlen, Robert P.",
       title =  {{"The Picturesque Shakers" and "Hands to Work: Picturing the Shakers as Handicraft Workers in 19th Century Photographs"}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/2c471a8a-2f4e-4d4c-9189-6aff3b51d3c6}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2024,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {18},
       number = {2},
       pages = {169--212},
}
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April 2024

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2027-04-01

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My research focuses on how visual images are interpreted as historical evidence, and in 2022 and 2023 I presented papers at the Enfield Shaker Museum Spring Forum on the ways in which the Shakers were pictured in nineteenth-century photographs. In "The Picturesque Shakers,” I explored how the Shakers became willing participants with early commercial photographers in creating picturesque tableaus of Shaker life. In "Hands to Work,” I addressed the transformation in imagery in the 1870s and 1880s, from scenes made by sketchbook illustrators picturing Shakers "dancing before the Lord” to images made by commercial photographers of Shakers as craft workers. The following essay is adapted from those two papers.

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American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

169

Last Page

212

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

Part Of
ACSQ, v18 no2 (April 2024)
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