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Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.52  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Cheney Family on Horseback in the West
Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.52 © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Cheney Family on Horseback in the West

Dateearly 20th century
MediumPhotography; gelatin silver prints on paper
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 6 1/4 x 8 3/8in. (15.9 x 21.3cm) or smaller
Sheet (height x width): 6 1/4 x 8 3/8in. (15.9 x 21.3cm) or smaller
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Edith Cowles Poor
DescriptionMen and women pose on horseback. In one photograph, a snow covered mountain slope is visible beyond a low stone wall. In the other, a desert landscape includes scattered rock formations.
Object number2008.38.52-.53
InscribedOn verso, lower right, accession numberNotesSubject Note: Riders presumably include members of the Cheney family of Manchester, Connecticut. (Finlay 3/1/2014)
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund, 2001.22.44, the Connecticut Historical Society.
    Fredi Washington
    1930-1950
    Gift of Edith Cowles Poor, 2008.38.52, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Copyright Und…
    Unknown
    1910 - 1935
    2004.52.334
    Nelson Augustus Moore
    probably 1853
    2003.4.22
    J. C. Burge
    1883-1918
    Plaque
    The Hartford Faience Co.
    about 1910
    2005.160.9
    Unknown
    early 20th-late 20th century
    Sampler
    Mariett Norton
    1836
    The Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund,  2012.536.765  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.
    Richard S. DeLamater
    Gift of Charles Welles Gross and his sister, Mrs. Helen Gross Chadler, as a memorial to their f…
    Alfred Wordsworth Thompson
    1885