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Image Not Available for Antoinette and Stephen Cheney Holding Seaweed
Antoinette and Stephen Cheney Holding Seaweed
Image Not Available for Antoinette and Stephen Cheney Holding Seaweed

Antoinette and Stephen Cheney Holding Seaweed

Dateabout 1911
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver emulsion on plastic
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 3 1/4 × 4 7/16in. (8.3 × 11.3cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 7/16 × 4 11/16in. (8.7 × 11.9cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionAntoinette Phelps Cheney and her brother Stephen Pierson Cheney stand in ankle-deep water in the ocean at Fishers Island. A small wave rolls in behind them. They stand looking off frame to the right, and are both holding seaweed.
Object number1988.133.403
InscribedHandwritten on envelope by project cataloger: "View of Antoinette Phelps Cheney (Crocker) / and Stephen Pierson Cheney standing in the / ocean at Fisher's Island, New York, holding / seaweed. / c.1911"NotesNegative of 1988.175.8.166 (photograph in album)
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