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Image Not Available for Horace Bushnell Cheney's Room at Sheffield Scientific
Horace Bushnell Cheney's Room at Sheffield Scientific
Image Not Available for Horace Bushnell Cheney's Room at Sheffield Scientific

Horace Bushnell Cheney's Room at Sheffield Scientific

Dateabout 1890
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver emulsion on plastic
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 2 5/8 × 2 5/8in. (6.7 × 6.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 15/16 × 2 7/8in. (7.5 × 7.3cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionView of the corner of a carpeted room, with walls covered in beadboard and floral wallpaper. Several framed photographs hang on the walls. To the left, a large wooden desk sits in front of a window with a partially drawn shade. In the center, two chairs sit against opposite sides of the corner. Between them, on the right wall, is a doorway. It is partially covered by a curatin that hangs from a rod above the opening. The corner of a fireplace is visible to the right. The room is at Sheffield Scientific School, a school of Yale College.
Object number1988.133.346
InscribedHandwritten on envelope by project cataloger: "Sheffield Scientific / View of Horace Bushnell Cheney's room / c. 1890NotesNegative of 1988.175.3.107 (photograph in album)
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