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Image Not Available for Mary Pierson Cheney and her Children on the Porch, Haversham, Rhode Island
Mary Pierson Cheney and her Children on the Porch, Haversham, Rhode Island
Image Not Available for Mary Pierson Cheney and her Children on the Porch, Haversham, Rhode Island

Mary Pierson Cheney and her Children on the Porch, Haversham, Rhode Island

Date1904
MediumPhotography; gelatin emulsion on glass
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 5 x 4in. (12.7 x 10.2cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionA woman is seated in a rocking chair on the porch of a shingled cottage, holding a small boy in her lap. An older boy and girl stand on either side of her. The girl and the baby wear broad-brimmed straw hats.
Object number1988.133.208
InscribedOn paper envelope, in pencil, "1988-133-208 / Mary Pierson (Cheney) seated on the porch / of a cottage at Haversham, RI. She is / holding Stephen Pierson Cheney (1903-68) on / her lap and Horace Bushnell Cheney, Jr. (1899-/1930) and Antoinette Phelps Cheney (b. 1901) are / flanking her. c. 1904." "1988-175-9.34"
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