Inscriptions: Photographs mounted on a light green card. The card is in excellent condition, with a little scuffing and staining on the edges. The left picture is perfect; the right one has a spot in the sky. On the back at the top, written in ink, is the name "Dr. Norton." In the back upper right corner is the dealer's price.
Geography
Canterbury (N.H.), Merrimack County (N.H.), New Hampshire
Description: Canterbury, New Hampshire. Ox teams. Twelve yoke of oxen were maintained by this society. (The Shaker Image, 2nd edition, p. 120) Behind the oxen are two farm buildings, one is perpendicular to the other. A two storied frame building has two wide, barn door-like, openings, with a regular door and house windows on the right side. The barn to the left and back of the picture has a tall external chimney extending well above the roof line into the sky.
Geography
Canterbury (N.H.), Merrimack County (N.H.), New Hampshire
Description: A group of four Shaker men. Three are seated. One stands at the back of the two mean seated on the right side of the picture. In The Shaker Image, 2nd edition, the men are identified on page 125: "Elders, left to right: James S. Kaime (1820-1894), Canterbury, New Hampshire; Abraham Perkins (1807-1900), Enfield, New Hampshire; Henry Clay Blinn (1824-1905), Canterbury; in the rear: Benjamin H. Smith (1829-1899), Canterbury."
Geography
Canterbury (N.H.), Merrimack County (N.H.), New Hampshire
Description: Looking west from the Church Family settlement on the east side of the road, the picture shows the unpaved road and Trustees' Office. Beginning to the left of the Office, a board fence runs upwards to just past the first window. From there to the carriage mounting platform a hitching rail supported by stone posts is visible. A Shaker man walks up the road. Several Shaker men stand around the right entrance to the Office, including two who stand in the doorway. There is an unidentified house, barely visible, or Office carriage house, to the right of the Office.
Geography
Canterbury (N.H.), Merrimack County (N.H.), New Hampshire
Description: Church Family, from the West, Canterbury NH Written in pencil on the back are two separate picture identifications; each one is written in a different hand. On the front right edge of the card is printed "No. Shaker Village, Canterbury." No number is included, nor is a picture identification given there. Looking across the street, from the Office, or West, side of the street, at a slight southeastern perspective, a board fence and stone gate posts are seen. Sapling maple trees, almost leafless, and thereby almost invisible, are in front of the fence. With his arm and hand extended to the gate post, a man stands facing the camera. Another person is walking up the stone walkway toward the C F dwelling. To the right of the gate, and behind the fence, stands the infirmary. Other houses on the right side do not appear to be those extant in 2004. At the top of the picture is the Church Family dwelling. On the left side of the picture, and moving toward the C. F. dwelling, can be seen the corner of carriage house, brethren's shop and creamery; however indistinguishable they appear in this photograph.
Geography
Canterbury (N.H.), Merrimack County (N.H.), New Hampshire