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"Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart"
1835
L01.001
Charles Grandison Finney was one of the greatest evangelical preachers in an era of religious revivals. |
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Communication with the Spirit of his dead daughter Jane Elizabeth Pierce
Feb 12, 1851
L02.142
Dexter Pierce's daughter Jane died in May, 1855. Ten months later, he went to a spiritualist to communicate with her. The spiritualist, Mrs. W.R. Hayden (Maria Trenholm Hayden), wrote out in a letter the exchange she claimed to have had with his daughter. |
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"Revival in Pittsfield" article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Oct 30, 1821
L05.051
Revival meetings were held in many towns with the aim of bringing people into the church. |
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"Lyman Street, Lake Pleasant, Mass."
c. 1910
M.81
The Spiritualists who came to Lake Pleasant were but one group of Americans in the 19th century seeking to re-connect with nature through camping and other outdoor pursuits. |
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Gospel Meeting Tent
1907
1996.12.2618
The gospel meetings of the early 20th century sought to meet the religious needs of the common man. |
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Meeting Hall
c. 1940
1996.12.2762
Spiritualism emerged in the 1860s and attracted many adherents, including the thousands of Spiritualists who flocked to the campground at Lake Pleasant in Massachusetts every summer to attend concerts, lectures, and seances. |
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Lake Pleasant Founders
c. 1880
1996.12.2763
The founders of the Lake Pleasant Spiritualist camp ground in Montague, Massachusetts, subscribed to what were for the time radical ideas such as full equality between men and women and the possibility of contacting the spiritual realm through seances and mediums. |
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Lake Pleasant Cottage
c. 1886
1996.12.2968
Tents gave way to small cottages like this one as the Spiritualist community who camped at Lake Pleasant in Montague, Massachusetts, improved their campsites and erected meeting halls and pavilions. |
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The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
1906
1997.08.01.0070
Like many other Americans in this period, the Spiritualists who spent their summers at Lake Pleasant wished to immerse themselves in natural surroundings. |
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Lake Pleasant
1997.08.01.0071
The Spiritualists who came to Lake Pleasant were but one group of Americans in the 19th century seeking to re-connect with nature through camping and other outdoor pursuits. |