She’s Herr During’s head of security, and he wants to go to Lebanon and its border with Syria. That’s possibly because they had to sit absolutely still, without blinking, for about 15 seconds and sometimes an adjustable metal brace was placed behind their head, keeping it steady.Įnfield Shaker Museum thanks the private collectors and institutions who made these Shaker cartes de visite available for our use.Don’t worry. It is interesting to note that most of the Shakers in these images appear to be quite serious or even a bit uncomfortable. The images below were all copied from cartes de visite or slightly larger cabinet cards. Photography was introduced to the Shakers at the Enfield, New Hampshire community with the arrival of the carte de visite and, based on the number of existing examples, they were popular in all the Shaker villages. Their small size made them perfect for use as mementos to be given to friends, who mounted them in specially designed albums. Soon they were available in newly-established photographic studios all over the world.
What he could not have known about was the invention in Paris in 1854 of the carte de visite–2 1/2″ wide x 3″ high photographs pasted on card stock. After describing the plainness of the dwelling rooms, he wrote, “No image or portrait of anything upon the earth, or under the earth, is suffered in this holy place”. Former Enfield Shaker Brother Hervey Elkins offered a first-hand account of the furnishings in the Great Stone Dwelling in Fifteen Years in the Senior Order of Shakers (1853).
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