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The Shakers

The Shakers were known as

"The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing"

Known also as the Shakers or Shaking Quakers because of the movements associated with their cerimonies, they were a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Protestant Quakers, founded on the teachings of Ann Lee. 

Their sayings reflect their committment to craftsmanship:

"Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow."

"Put your hands to work, and your heart to God."

Shaker Brother Ricardo Belden, making wooden oval boxes in a workshop at the Hancock Shaker village near Pittsfield, Massachusetts

(Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Samuel Kravitt, [reproduction number,  ppmsca.07479] )