Children Sitting on Porch of Horace Bushnell Cheney House
PhotographerPhotographed by
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
American, 1868 - 1936
SubjectPortrait of
Stephen Pierson Cheney
American, 1903 - 1968
SubjectPortrait of
Roger Williams Cheney
American, 1907 - 1990
Dateabout 1909
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver emulsion on plastic
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 2 1/4 × 3 1/4in. (5.7 × 8.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 7/16 × 3 11/16in. (6.2 × 9.4cm)
Sheet (height x width): 2 7/16 × 3 11/16in. (6.2 × 9.4cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionFour children sit on the porch of a house, in front of a large window. They all wear nice clothes, and the girl wears a bow in her hair. The children are Stephen Pierson Cheney, Antoinette Cheney (Crocker), Roger Williams Cheney and Horace Bushnell Cheney, Jr. Antoinette sits in the middle of Stephen and Horace, and Roger sits on her lap. The house is their home, the Horace Bushnell Cheney House, in South Manchester, Connecticut.
Object number1988.133.388
InscribedHandwritten on envelope by project cataloger: "From left to right: Stephen Pierson Cheney, / Antoinette Phelps Cheney (Crocker), Roger / Williams Cheney and Horace Bushnell Cheney, Jr. / sitting on the porch of the HBC house, / South Manchester, CT / c. 1909"NotesNegative of 1988.175.8.82 (photograph in album)On View
Not on view
