Publications
American Communal Societies Quarterly, Volume 3, no. 3 - July 2009
July 1, 2009
Tags American Communal Societies Quarterly
- From the Editor
- Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat by Carol Medlicott
- William Adee Whitehead’s Visit to the Shakers
- Introduction by Elizabeth and Scott De Wolfe
- Reprint of Text
- Letter from Richard McNemar
- Introduction by Christian Goodwillie
- Reprint of Text
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- A New Publication for the Couper Press
- Review of Robert White Jr.: “Spreading the Light of the Gospel.” By Stephen J. Paterwic
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Ambrotype image of an unidentified Shaker sister. 1850s? 9.3 x 8 cm. Among the earliest known images of a Shaker, this sixth-plate ambrotype was created by a photographer named Campbell. The frame is stamped 1854. Intriguingly, the image has hints of color. Our initial research identified two photographers named Campbell working in the United States in the 1850s, one in Jersey City, N. J., and the other in Dayton, Ohio. Tantilizingly, James Campbell of Dayton published three articles during 1853 on the novel process of heliochromy, or adding color to wet collodion process images. Could this image be that of a Watervliet, Ohio, Shaker sister? Research is ongoing in an attempt to answer that question.
