Homemade brooms at Canterbury Shaker Village, a historic site and museum in Canterbury, New Hampshire

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Canterbury Village is under permanent conservation easement at one of a number of Shaker community sites founded in the 19th century. The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, is a Christian sect founded in the 18th century in England. Their celibacy combined with external and internal societal changes resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community, and consequently many of the Shaker settlements became village museums.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.