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A promising venture : Shaker photographs from the WPA / Lesley Herzberg.

Title
A promising venture : Shaker photographs from the WPA / Lesley Herzberg.
Author
Vicentini, Noel.
Publication
Clinton, N.Y. : Richard W. Couper Press, 2012.

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Hancock Shaker Village.
  • Herzberg, Lesley.
  • United States. Works Progress Administration.
Description
239 p. : chiefly ill.; 28 x 28 cm.
Series Statement
American communal societies series ; no. 7
Uniform Title
American communal societies series ; no. 7.
Alternative Title
Shaker photographs from the WPA
Subject
  • Documentary photography > United States > Exhibitions
  • Index of American Design > Exhibitions
  • Shaker architecture > Hancock > Exhibitions
  • Shaker architecture > Mount Lebanon > Exhibitions
  • Shaker architecture > Watervliet > Exhibitions
  • Shakers > Hancock > Exhibitions
  • Shakers > Hancock > Pictorial works
  • Shakers > Mount Lebanon > Exhibitions
  • Shakers > Mount Lebanon > Pictorial works
  • Shakers > Watervliet > Exhibitions
  • Shakers > Watervliet > Pictorial works
  • Vicentini, Noel > Exhibitions
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition presented by Hancock Shaker Village of 206 photographic images, taken by Noel Vicentini in the 1930s, of Hancock, Mount Lebanon and Watervliet Shaker villages as part of the Federal Art Project's Index of American Design.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / by Lesley Herzberg -- Mount Lebanon, New York, exterior views -- Mount Lebanon, New York, interior views -- Mount Lebanon, New York, people -- Hancock, Massachusetts, exterior views -- Hancock, Massachusetts, interior views -- Watervliet, New York -- Shaker objects and room settings in the home of E.D. Andrews, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
ISBN
  • 9781937370039
  • 1937370038