Primary Sources: Alternative Religions, Sects, Cults and Communes: Shakers

"These are materials related to the United Society of Believer's in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly called Shakers."

"John Patterson MacLean, a native Ohioan and American Universalist Minister, donated primary and secondary literature on the "Western" Shakers of Ohio. Primarily comprised of books, pamphlets, songs, poetry and assorted ephemera, the collection focuses on the writings of Richard McNemar with printers in Watervliet, as well as Union Village and Lebanon, Ohio."

" The Edward Deming Andrews Memorial Shaker Collection includes about 1,200 different images of the Shaker religious sect. At least fifteen Shaker communities located in eight states are represented. Although the photographs depict more than a century of Shaker life, most date from a fifty-year span of time beginning around 1880. The overwhelming number of images are in black and white, and a high percentage of the portraits are formal studies taken either in a photographer's studio or on a site at or near a Shaker community." Winterthur Digital Collections