A promising venture
Subtitle: Shaker photographs from the WPA
By: Lesley Herzberg
Contributors: Herzberg, Lesley; United States. Works Progress Administration; Hancock Shaker Village
Series: American communal societies series -- no. 7; American communal societies series -- no. 7.
Publisher: Richard W. Couper Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Clinton, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781937370039
Subjects: Shakers; Pictorial works; Documentary photography; Shaker architecture; Exhibitions
Other titles: Shaker photographs from the WPA
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition presented by Hancock Shaker Village of 206 photographic images, taken by Noel Vicentini in the 1930s, of Hancock, Mount Lebanon and Watervliet Shaker villages as part of the Federal Art Project's Index of American Design.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Lesley Herzberg; title: Mount Lebanon, New York, exterior views; title: Mount Lebanon, New York, interior views; title: Mount Lebanon, New York, people; title: Hancock, Massachusetts, exterior views; title: Hancock, Massachusetts, interior views; title: Watervliet, New York; title: Shaker objects and room settings in the home of E.D. Andrews, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.