Shaker Photographs

Photograph of a Shaker woman from Canterbury, New Hampshire

A Canterbury Shaker

Description

This is a digital collection of photographs of people and scenes from various Shaker communities, including Canterbury (New Hampshire), Mt. Lebanon (New Hampshire), Enfield (New Hampshire), Hancock (Massachusetts), Shirley (Massachusetts), and Watervliet (New York).


Inventory

This collection includes xxxc photographs. It provides images of both the front and back of every photography. A description of the contents of each card is also provided and all printed and handwritten text has been transcribed.

Credits

Metadata for the collection was provided by the Cataloging Department at Hamilton College.

Digitization

Digitization of this collection was done in-house on a flatbed scanner at 600 dpi, 24-bit color and saved as uncompressed TIF images. Images were converted to JPEG2000 for high-quality Web delivery and for long-term storage.

Christian Goodwillie, Director of Special Collections and Archives
E-mail: cgoodwil@hamilton.edu
Telephone: (315) 859-4447

Special Collections
Burke Library
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323