Box 1
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Contains 28 Results:
Correspondence. Frost, Marguerite to Irene Zieget, 1929-1948
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1929-1948
Correspondence. Frost, Marguerite to Irene Zieget, 1951-1957
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1951-1957
Correspondence. Frost, Marguerite to Irene Zieget, 1960-1968
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1960-1968
Correspondence and other writings. Frost, Marguerite to Irene Zieget, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
undated
Correspondence and other writings. Frost, Marguerite to Julius Zieget, 1961
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1961
Correspondence. Philadelphia College of Textitles and Science. Incl. cloth fragment, 1958, 1962
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1958, 1962
Correspondence. Various, 1949, 1956, 1964
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1949, 1956, 1964
Correspondence. Third party, 1939, 1941
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
1939, 1941
List of books in Zieget collection. Written on hanging tag, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...
Dates:
undated
Clifford, Lavina. Given to Lucy Shepard. Recipe booklet, 1855
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
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This series documents some of the activities of everyday Shaker life (and death) through historical manuscripts, photographs and ephemera, as well as later writings and postcards. Of the manuscripts handed down among the Shakers, perhaps the most unique is the bound "obituary journal." A label affixed to the inside front cover carries the name of "Mary Whitcher," suggesting that the volume belonged to her at one time. Whitcher was the granddaughter of Benjamin Whitcher, who joined the...
Dates:
1855