This small case of 18 drawers was exhibited in 1986 at the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition “Shaker Design,” and is one of the better known pieces in the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon collection. It is remarkable in that each of the drawers in the two banks of n...

In September of 1880, a typed, ten-page report on the personality and characteristics of Sister Emma J. Neale was prepared in which she was described as “a remarkable critic.” The report was based on a phrenological examination, or reading, performed by Nelson Sizer at t...