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Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.17, Connecticut Museum of Culture and…
Rush Cheney
Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.17, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyright Undetermined

Rush Cheney

MakerMade by Daniel J. Broderick American, 1891 - 1962
Dateabout 1870
MediumPhotography; black and white photograph on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 4 3/8 × 3 7/16in. (11.1 × 8.7cm)
Sheet (height x width ): 9 3/4 × 6 3/16in. (24.8 × 15.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker
DescriptionHead and shoulders portrait of Rush Cheney. He is angled to the right and looking off camera. Rush is wearing what may be a tuxedo jacket and vest over a white dress shirt. He has white hair and a long, gray beard and moustache. The beard is formed into a point at the end. The photograph is printed in the shape of an oval onto a larger sheet that has a faint rectangular impression around the image area.
Object number1979.25.17
InscribedHandwritten in pencil on recto in bottom right corner of sheet: "Broderick / [line] / Copy"

Handwritten in pencil near top of verso: "Rush Cheney"

Handwritten in pencil near bottom of verso: "R30"
NotesDate note: Estimate based on life dates and approximate age of subject in photograph.

Rush Cheney was the seventh of nine children of George Cheney and Electa Woodbridge. He had seven brothers and one sister.
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Gift of Charles Cheney Humpstone, 2002.14.3, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyrig…
    Unknown
    about 1875
    Gift of Charles Cheney Humpstone, 2002.14.6, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyrig…
    John Cheney
    1856 - 1866
    Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.20, Connecticut Museum of Culture and…
    John Cheney
    1856 - 1866
    Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.8, Connecticut Museum of Culture and …
    James W. Cheney
    1891
    Gift of Charles Cheney Humpstone, 2002.14.7, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyrig…
    Seth Wells Cheney
    about 1850
    Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.22, Connecticut Museum of Culture and…
    Seth Wells Cheney
    about 1850
    Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.21, Connecticut Museum of Culture and…
    John Cheney
    1871 - 1881
    Side Chair
    Churchill family
    1805-1830
    Gift of Horace Learned and Mrs. Frank W. Crocker, 1979.25.24, Connecticut Museum of Culture and…
    Ward Cheney
    about 1874
    Gift of Mrs. George Wells Cheney, Jr., 1991.54.139, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, …
    Ward Cheney
    about 1874
    Highchair
    Thomas Hart Hooker
    about 1770