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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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A Singular People: Images of Zoar

A Singular People: Images of Zoar

Fernandez

Hardcover

Biographies General19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Photography

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0873387678
ISBN13: 9780873387675
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: Oct 30 1998
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.69 Width: 9.20 Depth: 8.72
Language: English

A pictorial view of the Separatist community of Zoar

The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the Ohio & Erie Canal.

Unlike many 19th-century communal societies, Zoar did not discourage tourism and gawkers. As a result, there is an unusually rich photographic record of the community and its people as well as many descriptions and comments by writers who wished to share their impressions of the Old World town. Tourists snapped photos of themselves riding on haywagons, boating on Zoar Lake, and walking in the Zoar Separatists' symbolic garden. The Zoarites themselves got into the act as well, taking commercial photos of themselves and their town to be sold as postcards. Fernandez uses many previously unpublished photographs from the Ohio Historical Society's collections and captions them with the words of journalists, diarists, and other visitors.

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