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Call number
MssCol 2731
Physical description
8 linear feet (2 boxes, 49 v.); 9 microfilm reels
Preferred Citation
Shaker manuscript collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
Advance notice required. Request access to this collection.Restrictions apply

Collection consists of records of daily events, diaries, recollections, accounts of seances, recipes, spirit messages, songs, hymns, poems, church covenants, accounts, correspondence, drawings, printed material, and photographs documenting Shaker communities in the United States, chiefly those in New Lebanon and Watervliet, New York.

Scope and arrangement

Arrangement

Arranged by Shaker Manuscript item number

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Purchase, gift, Kramer, Leon; Melcher, Marguerite; Dauber & Pine; Salloch, William; Lassiter, William L.; Mott, Howard S, 1953

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

Access to materials

Advance notice required. Request access to this collection.

Access restrictions

Originals available only by permission of Curator of Manuscripts.

Alternative form available

Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-301