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An old drawing of a vacuum bar.
How condensed milk got its start with the Shakers
Nov 1, 2017
Postcard. Elder Alonzo Giles Hollister Standing Next to the Shakers’ Vacuum Pan, Laboratory, Center Family, Mount Lebanon, NY, Ca. 1910, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon: 2008.21701.1. In the September 1999 issue of Smithsonian Magazine, Carolyn Hughes Crowley presented an ar...
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An old book with the title of the little instructor.
Miniature books
Oct 25, 2017
Cabinet Card, Elder Henry C. Blinn, Church Family, Canterbury, NH, ca. 1890, W. C. G. Kimball, Concord, NH, photographer, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon: 1957.8531.1. In the spring of 1849 Elder Henry Clay Blinn, the caretaker of the boys at the Church Family at Canterbury and...
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