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Working Men's Institute at 407 Tavern St. members.""Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Murphy, aged 85 and 86 respectively, are seated at the table with the fringed tablecloth. Standing, from left to right, are Henry Hundson, William Ford, and Homer Lichtenberger. The ladies pictured are, from left to right, as follows: Annie B. Ford, Marcia Corbin, Jen Twigg, Mrs. William Robb, and Miss Maud Miller [later Maud Miller Fauntleroy], librarian." (Weinzapfel, Connie et al. Images of America: New Harmony Indiana. Arcadia Publishing, 2000. p. 122)""Working Men�s Institute Philanthropist William Maclure established the Institute in 1838. The Working Men�s Institute inhabited a wing in the Harmonist Church until 1894. In that year, it moved to [an] impressive building three-story structure on Tavern Street. The Institute at one time comprised 144 Institutes in Indiana and additional sixteen in Illinois at its height. The Working Men's Institute has dwindled to this location. This is the oldest continuously operating library in Indiana. Their founding mission was the dissemination of useful knowledge to working men and their families. That remains their mission today." (http://indianaplaces.blogspot.com/2016/06/working-mens-institute-new-harmony.html).

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