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Image Not Available for Katherine Bell Cheney as Queen Elizabeth
Katherine Bell Cheney as Queen Elizabeth
Image Not Available for Katherine Bell Cheney as Queen Elizabeth

Katherine Bell Cheney as Queen Elizabeth

Date1922
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver emulsion on plastic
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 4 1/8 × 3 1/8in. (10.5 × 7.9cm)
Sheet (height x width): 4 5/8 × 3 3/8in. (11.7 × 8.6cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Byard Williams
DescriptionView of Katherine Bell Cheney standing on the brick front porch of a large house. She is wearing a dress with large, puffy sleeves and has a voluminous veil on her head. There are two chairs on the porch behind her, one on either side of the front entrance, under a portico. The double doors to the house are closed. There is a lantern hanging from the roof of the portico.
Object number1988.133.535
InscribedHandwritten on envelope by project cataloger: "Katherine Bell (Cheney)"NotesNegative of 1992.115.22 (photograph in album)

According to cataloging worksheet in object file, image depicts "Katherine (Bell) Cheney dressed as Queen Elizabeth in a costume made of Cheney silk for an international silk show"

A sign in film 1985.113.2 indicates that the costume is of "QUEEN ELIZABETH / OF ENGLAND / XV CENTURY".
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