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A small chest of drawers with two drawers.
No carpenter or joiner: Elder Bushnell's blanket chest
Blanket Chest, North Family, Mount Lebanon, NY, 1866. Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon 2003.1.1 Photo by Alan Lavallee. In June 2001 the antique firm Courcier and Wilkins of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts purchased a red painted two-drawer blanket chest. The piece had suffered...
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A pair of rocking chairs on a white background.
The history of a sign
[sign], Second and South Family, Mount Lebanon, NY, ca. 1870-1920s, pine, paint. 1950.1095.1This sign directing people to where they could purchase the well-known Shaker chairs has had a more varied life than one would guess at first glance. Stereograph, Second Family,...
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