Elder Henry Clay Blinn with Beehives, Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire, circa 1875
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Henry C. Blinn joined the Canterbury, New Hampshire, Shaker Community in 1838. He served as an elder and as official historian for the Shaker community for most of the rest of his life. His writings included at least two articles in the American Bee Journal (April and September 1870). Elder Blinn learned by doing, as this stereograph of his work with bees in the Canterbury apiary indicates.
Henry C. Blinn joined the Canterbury, New Hampshire, Shaker Community in 1838. He served as an elder and as official historian for the Shaker community for most of the rest of his life. His writings included at least two articles in the American Bee Journal (April and September 1870). Elder Blinn learned by doing, as this stereograph of his work with bees in the Canterbury apiary indicates.
Artifact
Stereograph
Date Made
circa 1875
Subject Date
circa 1875
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2020.0.1.14
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Card stock
Technique
Photographic processes
Color
Blue
Dimensions
Height: 3.375 in
Width: 6.75 in
Inscriptions
front, printed on mount: No. Shaker Village, Canterbury / Concord and Miscellaneous Views / Photography by H. A. Kimball / Concord, New Hampshire back, written: Apiary
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