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Item 6913
Title: Students, teachers, Alfred Shaker Village, 1885
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers
Date: circa 1885
Location: Alfred
Media: Slide from an original photograph
Item 6627
Title: View from the Garden Hill, New Gloucester, ca. 1907
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers
Date: circa 1907
Location: New Gloucester
Media: Black and white print; glass plate negative
Item 6735
Title: Birds'-eye view of Alfred Shaker community, 1880
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers
Date: 1880-01-29
Location: Alfred
Media: Slide from an illustration- camera obscura/lucida
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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
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After the American Revolution, settlers on Maine's frontier -- away from the coast -- brought with them religions that were quite different in belief and practice from the traditional New England Congregationalists.
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Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.