Forty to fifty year service employees of Cheney Brothers, Cheney Hall, Manchester, May 13, 1924
PhotographerPhotographed by
Elite Studio
American
Date1924
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 8 1/4 x 10 1/4in. (21 x 26cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank Crocker
DescriptionFormal group portrait of men and women seated in chairs and standing on and in front of a stage. Most are elderly. Some wear eyeglasses. Some men have mustaches. Some women wear jewelry, including necklaces. A painted backdrop represents trees. Light fixtures are attached to fluted columns at either side.
Object number1979.25.13
MarkingsOn verso, on paper label, typewritten in black ink: "Entire Group - 40-50 Year Service Employees / who attended / First Assembly and Banquet / 40-50 Year Service / Employees of Cheney Brothers / 6.30 o'clock / Tuesday Evening May 13, 1924. / Cheney Hall / South Manchester, Connecticut. / Left to Right / Standing (4th Row) August Weiman - Joseph Joyce - John Wright / James Waddell - Otto Seelert - William Dalton / Sidney Elliott - Herman Kjellquist - John Johnson 2nd / Jeremiah Maher - Gus Runde - Robert Shields - Albert / Krause - James Egan - Peter Hurley - Oscar Peterson / Charles Sadrozinki / Sitting (3rd Row) Robert Dewey - Philip Shaw - Patrick Ryan /Theodore Bidwell - John Robb - Ralph Russell / Richard Mommers - Albert Chapin - Judson Cobb - /William Wright - Philip Johnson - John Bantley / Standing (2nd Row) Andrew Dunn - Samuel Loney - John Dilworth / William Ryan - Frank Cheney Jr. - Charles Carlson /Robert Johnson - Benjamin Cadman - William Dunn -/ Frank Saunders - John Trotter / James Wright - Samuel Dillon / Sitting (1st Row) William Walsh - William Shields - George / Johnson - Charles Day - Mary Lane - Mary Sullivan / Mary Kingsley - Minnie Smith - Catherine Quinn / Minnie Quinn - Mary Flanagan - Mary Murphy / Johanna Newman - George Ferris - Charles Staye."InscribedNotesSubject Note: In the 1910s, Cheney Brothers advertised that they were "the oldest and largest successful silk manufacturing company in America and the largest silk manufacturing company in the world." They produced dress silks of all kinds, silks for upholstery and drapery, velvets, cravats, millinery silks, silks for electrical purposes and silk yarns. List of employees on this photograph includes Irish and German surnames.
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