Print, Photographic

Date:

1979-1979

Dimensions:

Print Size: 10.0 x 8.0

Description:

This color photograph depicts Eldress Gertrude Soule holding a cake in the shape of the Meeting House. Gertrude wears a white mesh cap over her white hair, dark headband, plastic-rimmed eyeglasses, red cable-knit cardigan sweater, and Shaker dress with matching bertha with pattern of black ground with small white, pink, and yellow flowers with green foliage and green rick-rack trim. She stands outside the north facade of the power house with the west facades of the Steel Garage and Syrup Shop and north facade of the North Shop visible behind her. There is a green park bench at the north side of the power house. Jack Auchmoody and Beth Solomon are seen at the right border of the image. There is a table next to Gertrude that is set with a white plastic table cloth, cut glass punch bowl with glass ladle and light orange punch, metal pie server, and paper plates and matching cups with a gold ground and large daisies printed on them. Stamped on the back with red ink is: "Print / Made / By / Kodak / Oct 79."

Provenance:

Original location noted on catalog card: "Trustees' Bldg , Room 1, [OF0]."

Subjects:

Sisters, Eldresses, Caps, Headbands, Eyeglasses, Cardigan Sweaters, Flowers, Berthas, Dresses, Men, Women, T-Shirts, Jeans, Power House, Benches, Steel Garage, Utility Poles, Syrup Shop, North Shop, Cake, Meeting House, Tables, Table Cloths, Punch Bowls, Ladles, Paper Plates, Paper Cups, Pie Servers, Punch, Daisies

People:

Auchmoody, Jack, Solomon, Beth, Soule, Gertrude

Place of Origin:

New Hampshire/East Canterbury/Shaker Village/Power House

Collection Name:

Canterbury Photograph Collection

Item Number:

p1029

Type of Material:

Photographs

Copyright Statement:

For information regarding copyright, permissions, and reproductions contact the Canterbury Shaker Village

Participating Organization:

Canterbury Shaker Village