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Photo-engraved printing blocks
Printing Block of Mount Lebanon Church Family Dwelling House, Hiram Ferguson, Albany, NY, ca. 1883, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 1957.8469.1 Printing Block of Mount Lebanon Meetinghouse, Hiram Ferguson, Albany, NY, ca. 1883, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 1957.8469.1 These...
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Partial View to North Family
"Verses composed in the North Family of Believers at New Lebanon,... March 12th 1848."
  Partial View to North Family – Looking North-West, ca. 1880. Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 1950.4014.1 This anonymously written poem notes and described the 36 members of the North Family at the beginning of 1848. Where some members are noted only by their first n...
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