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Collections Care of Historic costume & books at New Harmony, IN / saved from the 1850s Harmonist Society- .JenniferHein Textile Conservation
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New Harmony, IN History Harmony Society / Harmonist, 1814 -1825 Frederick / George Rapp, Rappites, seek salvation in a place remote from temptations & distractions I the world” Wilson
textile manufacture of woolen broadcloth, cotton & silk
Owenite Community,1825 - 40, Ideal community for the reform of society,
600 Scottish families who followed Owen & McClure.
Sons: Robert Dale Owens, Scientist & naturalist & Richard Owen (education)
Education for infants and first free public school system, first training school for teachers in all the west.” p.291 Lockwood
& William MacLure, Macluria, which split off from this group to settle an adjoining community. The communities were agricultural but based on the principles of union of labor & capital.” p.115 Lockwood
New Harmony, IN Groups, WMI, HNH & ISM- NHSHS
WMI Exterior & downtown NH
“The subsequent story of the chain of public libraries, modeled after the
Society for Mutual Instruction of community days, which Maclure’s will
provided in 1840 were monies for 160 library’s for frontier settlements of
the west.” p289 Lockwood
WMI / Workingman’s Librarian’s office space
& entrance with case exhibits
New Harmony, Indiana
Workingman’s Institute First Floor Library
Workingman’s
Institute was set
up in the late
1890’s to
educate the
public about art
& science
through their
exhibitions.
50 Year Cultural History
Case Exhibits modified in 1992-2002
Rappite Dress & 1960 - 1990 Exhibit
¼ of 2nd fl.-Ohio River exhibit-2002 Highway transportation grant & WMI 2nd fl. left side –
Workingman’s Institute History
Large Paintings on the left & exterior wall.
WMI Vaults & Painting Storage
2002 WMI ½ of Second Floor
Ron Richards, ISM paleobiologist work in the collections over the
last decade persuaded the current board & library staff ,
Frank Smith & Sherry Graves to focus the exhibits on the
Owen Natural History collection.
WMI Natural History Exhibits
with limited cultural history, mounted prints, quilts…
Silvered photo of George Rapp, umbrella
(box storage in vaults since 2002)
Father Rapp’s History, Old Economy, PA into 1880’s
“There is no portrait of him, german,… he was
nearly six feet high: well built, with blue eyes, a
somewhat stately walk , and a full beard, which he
was the first in the society to wear.” Nordhoff p. 91
Gertrude Rapp, grandaughter of the founderp.95 Nordhoff
Rappist Women’s Bonnet Type
2002 Sun, Air & Vacuum
In 2002, 50 Costume objects were stabilized,
inventoried, tagged and archivally boxed for storage in
the Vaults, behind this wall.
HNH & ISM- NHSHS run under a Unified Program.
This is 1 of 3 rooms in the Dormitory that are the
NHSHS General Collection Storage
“Historic New Harmony (HNH)” and the “Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites- New Harmony State Historic Site (ISM)” operate under what is known as a Unified Program.
NHSHS Archives Storage –
Dan Goodman, newharmonyshs@dynasty.net
Both institutions still retain
their historic properties and
artifact collections in
town. Until 1991 both
institutions were running
parallel programs,
competing for the same
grants, fighting for the
same visitor, running
similar gift shops, etc.
NHSHS – Golden Troupe c. 1900 Vaudeville-Theatre
Group Storage
“ HNH provides administrative, education functions and ISM provides collections management, exhibition, curatorial functions.
While the lines are blurred, I deal with both collection’s artifacts. They remain in their respective storage facilities and in separate databases.” Dan Goodman 10-06
New Harmony, Indiana Groups
WMI, HNH & NHSHS
WMI/ Workingman’s Institute Library Staff, 812-682-4806
Sherry Grave (Librarian) sgraveswmi@hotmail.com,
Frank Smith (Collections) fsmithwmi@hotmail.com
HNH Unified program since 1991 ( Bodmer Prints exhibition)
And the ISM- NHSHS
Jean Graham Lee (Director 1993-2003) NHSHS
Dan Goodman, Collections Manager. NHSHS & HNH
newharmonyshs@dynasty.net (812) 682-4488
Office in Schnee-Ribeyre-Elliott House, Storage in Dormitory II
Affiliation of University of Southern Indiana Extended Services, Evansville, IN
Jane Owen Private collector and real estate owner of Conference center, hotel…
Red Geranium Enterprises
In the book, New Harmony Communities, written by
George B. Lockwood , 1905, who completed his
political science degree from DePauw University, he
states,
“In the New Harmony library, one of the most interesting book collections in the country, the files of the New Harmony Gazette, a weekly paper published throughout the lifetime of the Owenite experiment as the organ of the movement, was found the most prolific source of information.”
“The scrapbooks of Richard Owen and Mrs. Arthur Dransfield, the letters and papers of Josiah Warren, the community account-books and the letters, wills, and deeds of William Maclure, were also found in the New Harmony library…. “ p. 380 Lockwood.
Readings The Angel & The Serpent, The Story of New Harmony.” William Wilson,
IU Press, 1964 & 84, general reading
The Communistic Societies of the United States , Corner House
Publishers, MASS 1978, reprint of 1875 copy of Charles Norhoff,
“The Harmonists at Economy in 1874 p.63-98
The New Harmony Communities, D.Appleton & Co.
1902 c, by George B. Lockwood (DePauw University)
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