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| Title main | Printing cloth, Cheney Brothers, Manchester. |
| Subject | Manchester (Conn.)
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| Subject | Silk-printing
Silk industry -- Employees
Textile industry
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| Subject | Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company
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| Category | Livelihood
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| Description | A man in work clothes operates a large piece of machinery, evidently a roller press for printing silk fabric. A long piece of printed silk is at the left. Rollers, possibly bearing ink, are behind it. Large gears are at the right. Typewritten label on back: "South Manchester / Printing Cloth - Silk Industry."
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| Description notes | Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
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| Date created | [ca. 1930] |
| Format extent | 1 photographic print ; 20 x 26 cm.
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| Format medium | image/jpeg |
| Identifier | Accession number 1987.223.7
File name 0536 img0074.pcd
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| Source | The Connecticut Historical Society. |
| Relation isPartOf | The Cheney Family and Cheney Brothers Silk Mills.
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| Rights | Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. |
| SeqNum | 2624 |
| ObjCol | Photographs |
