This image shows Brother Ricardo Belden (1870-1958), the last male Shaker from a Massachusetts Shaker colony, working on a round wooden box in his workshop at the Hancock Shaker village near Pittsfield Massachusetts. He is totally absorbed in his efforts — a Zen-like meditation/prayer state achieved by doing a job well.

We can see some of his tools on the work bench behind him, and typical Shaker style shelf, a peg in a support post, and woven basket on the floor holding wood for other projects. His plain work-smock pretty well obscures the stool he is seated on.

The photo was taken in 1935 by Samuel Kravitt (1913-2000), photographer and film maker from New Haven Connecticut. His widow contributed the original of this image to the Library of Congress and “Mrs. Kravitt has stipulated that Samuel Kravitt’s photographs are in the public domain.” - http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/500_krav.html