Elder Henry Clay Blinn with Beehives, Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire, circa 1875

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Artifact Overview

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 Details

Artifact

Stereograph

Date Made

circa 1875

Subject Date

circa 1875

Location

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
Elder Henry Clay Blinn with Beehives, Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire, circa 1875