Sister Evelyn Polsey in the Main Dwelling House bakery, Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Collection
- Shakers- General collection
- Item Media Type
- CreativeWorkSeries
- Genre
- Visual Materials
- Subgenre- Visual Materials
- Postcard
- Date
- 1750 to 1900s
- Language
- Not applicable
- Extent
- 2 images
- Abstract
- Main Dwelling House bakery, Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire
- Note
Description: Baked beans were taken to Concord, NH, for sale. Sister Evelyn was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1891. Entered Society in 1902; signed covenant in 1912. Died in 1955. Head cook at Dwelling House. (From note with card.). -- Condition (card: fine, photograph: fine). Unused. A white border: Bottom is1/2 inch; sides, 7/16; and top 3/8+ inch. Black and white.; On back top "Photo Post Card." A vertical line divides card into two areas. In far right is a stamp box, which includes the fact that the photo is printed on Kodak Paper. The word "Address" is to the left of the box.
Untitled. Sister Evelyn Polsey in the Main Dwelling House bakery, circa 1940. She is filling cardboard containers with baked beans which had cooked overnight in crocks pictured in revolving bake oven, a patented design --1876, by Emeline Hart.
- Subject Name
- Shakers
- Subject Geographic
- Canterbury (N.H.)
- Merrimack County (N.H.)
- New Hampshire
- Shelf Location
- Original digital object name: yhm-spe-sha-pos-cnh-193
- Hamilton College Library, Communal Societies, Shakers, Postcards, cnh-193
- Restrictions on Access
- There are no restrictions on access to this material.
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