Clipping, Newspaper

Description

Newspaper pages. Nine illustrations, each labeled sequentially (.1). Top left: portrays a house with greenhouse; tree and three people stand in front of the house. Top right: interior view with people sitting on benches which line the walls and a woman standing at center on same bench. Second row left: man and woman with arms raised. Second row center: thatch-roof house with two trees without leaves, bushes, and two men. Second row right: side-view of woman dressed in pant-suit, hat, and carries a muff. Third row left: house with smaller structure on side and a number of people standing in front of it. Third row right: rainy exterior scene with two groups of people huddled in two groups and furniture strewn on the lawn. Bottom left: eight men and women standing outside white building with thatch roof. Bottom right: dilapidated building with two roof peaks and a single man making a side glance at it. Verso features three columns of text (.2) has two images unrelated to those on (1.). Top image is a shoulder-length portrait; bottom image is a group of men on horses carrying flags. Verso has three columns of text.

Notes

These Shakers have no relation to American Shakers and were religious communists, called "Girlingites", following a Mrs. Girling. Girling was viewed as the prophetess to the Almighty. She was a middle-aged woman, who in about 1872, began this new sect which was characterized by singing, preaching, paroxysms of ecxtacy, leeping and dancing.