@article{Emlen2022,
       author = "Emlen, Robert P",
       title =  {{The Changing Face of Shaker Life: How Pictorial Images in the Popular Press Reflect the Growing Acceptance of the Shakers in Nineteenth-Century America}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/ffa5b8f3-5486-4083-95ba-298f4baf3348}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2022,
       month = apr,
       volumen = {16},
       number = {2},
       pages = {183--212},
}

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April 2022

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2025-04-01

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In the half century between 1830 and 1880 the American public encountered the first visual representations of Shaker life. Published as newspaper and magazine illustrations or on separate sheets that were meant to be framed and displayed, these printed images document the changing ways in which Americans imagined the Shakers over the years. This essay is drawn from my book Imagining the Shakers: How the Visual Culture of Shaker Life Was Pictured in the Popular Illustrated Press of Nineteenth-Century America, published by the Richard W. Couper Press in 2019, and was presented as a talk at the Enfield Shaker Forum in 2021.

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Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

16

Issue

2

First Page

183

Last Page

212

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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