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Why didn't the Shakers talk about having their pictures taken?
Photograph of Eldress Anna White, North Family Mount Lebanon, NY, Notman Photographic Company, Albany, NY, Ca. 1880, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 2017.24190.1. Recently Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon acquired a carte-de-visite of North Family Eldress Anna White that was...
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"The Giants' Mile-Stone"
Photograph of the Giants’ Mile Stone, Mount Lebanon, NY, ca. 1905, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 2016.24194.1 Located along an old road that once ran down the side of the mountain at the Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, is an unusually large stone standing higher than any ar...
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