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A wooden cane with the words'five van cleef and van cleef'engraved on it.
Hand me down my walking cane
Walking Cane, North Family, Mount Lebanon, New York, ca. 1885, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 209.22.1, photograph by Matthew Kroening. Elder Frederick William Evans (1808-1893) is always described as a physically strong and active man. Although best known as the voice of...
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A wooden pitchfork on a white background.
Ouch! Careful with that fork.
Garden Fork, North Family, Mount Lebanon, New York, ca. 1870, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, 1950.3201.1. Photograph by Matthew Kroening. In 1948, several months after the Shakers left their Mount Lebanon home and moved in with the Hancock Shakers but before they sold off...
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