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Photography begins as part of $750,000 grant-funded digitization project
Set-up for collection digitization, March, 2017, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon In 2016 Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon received a $750,000 grant from The Henry Luce Foundation to create an online digital catalog of its collections. Work has been ongoing entering data about...
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Writings on the Walls: The Brethren’s Workshop
The Brethren’s Workshop, or Brick Shop, circa 1920’s. North Family, Mount Lebanon, New York. Photographer: William F. Winter. Source: Historic American Buildings Survey. The buildings of the North Family are full of clues pointing to past uses by the Shakers, from slots in...
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