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Image Not Available for A corner of the master bedroom of the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut
A corner of the master bedroom of the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut
Image Not Available for A corner of the master bedroom of the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, Connecticut

A corner of the master bedroom of 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 (height x width): 5 x 7in. (12.7 x 17.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionA bureau with a mirror, a straight chair, and a small drop-leaf table are arranged along the wall of a bedroom. A fireplace with andirons is surrounded by what appear to be Delft tiles. Framed photographs and small objects are displayed on the mantelpiece. Framed pictures, many of them photographs, hang on the walls, which are covered with patterned wallpaper. A patterned bedspread is on a bed in the foreground.
Object number1988.133.315
InscribedOn paper envelope, upper left, in pencil, "negative of / 1988-85-138.72"; upper center, in pencil, "View of the master bedroom of the Horace Bushnell / Cheney House, 78 Forest Street, Manchester, CT / view includes foot of bed, dressing table / bureau with mirror, drop leaf table and tiled fireplace c. 1898"
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