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Image Not Available for Master bedroom in the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut
Master bedroom in the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut
Image Not Available for Master bedroom in the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut

Master bedroom in the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut

PhotographerPhotographed by Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr. American, 1868 - 1936
Date1898
MediumPhotography; gelatin emulsion on glass
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 5 x 7in. (12.7 x 17.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionTwo dressing tables, both with mirrors, a small drop-leaf table, and two straight chairs are arranged around the walls of a bedroom. Framed pictures, most of them photographs, hang on the walls and are arranged on the tables. A patterned bedspread is on a bed at the right. Patterned wall paper is on the walls and patterned curtains hang at the window.
Object number1988.133.314
InscribedOn paper envelope, upper left, in pencil, "negative of / 1988-85-138.71"; upper center, in pencil, "View of the master bedroom in the Horace / Bushnell Cheney house, 78 Forest Street, / South Manchester, CT c. 1898 / includes view of foot of bed, two dressing tables with mirrors and a drop leaf table."
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Museum purchase, 1995.36.1317  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
Museum purchase, 1995.36.128  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
Museum purchase, 1995.36.134  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
William G. Dudley
1916-1927
The Mischievous Mouse.
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
1845