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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
Item 6628
Title: Sabbathday Lake Quartette
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers
Date: circa 1900
Location: New Gloucester
Media: Black and white print; glass plate negative
Item 6625
Title: Sisters Ada S. Cummings and Lizzie Bailey, Sabbathday Lake, ca. 1915
Contributed by: United Society of Shakers
Date: circa 1915
Location: New Gloucester
Media: Black and white print; glass plate negative
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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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Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue
Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.
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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.