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Cheney Family Portraits

Original OwnerOriginally owned by the Cheney family American

PhotographerPhotographed by Notman Studios

PhotographerPhotographed by Unknown

MakerMade by Daniel J. Broderick American, 1891 - 1962

Date1890-1910

MediumPhotography; photomechanical prints; carbon prints and woodburytypes on paper

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (average image height x width---some smaller): 5 1/2 x 3 13/16in. (14 x 9.7cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineGift of Charles Cheney Humpstone

DescriptionStudio portraits of men and women of the Cheney family of Manchester, Connecticut, including Ward Cheney, Ralph Cheney, Rush Cheney, Frank Cheney, Charles Cheney, John Cheney, Seth Cheney, Frank Woodbridge Cheney, and Mary Bushnell Cheney. All men have beards. In one portrait, Mary Woodbridge Cheney wears a hat trimmed with feathers and a fur piece or fur collar.

Object number2002.14.1-.11

InscribedOn verso, in pencil: the names of the sitters, and in some cases their birth and death dates, are inscribed in pencil on the versos of each portrait; accession numbers are inscribed at lower right.NotesTechnique Note: Most or all are copies or reproductions of earlier photographic portraits. 2002.14.10 is a halftone reproduction of 2002.14.9. (Finlay 6/12/2002)

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