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Title	Display of Cheney Brothers silk fabrics, Manchester.
Creator	W. F. Miller & Co.
Place	Manchester (Conn.)
Topic	Silk industry Textile industry Display of merchandise
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company
Theme	Livelihood
Description	Lengths of plain and patterned silks are displayed in an alcove roped off by a satin ribbon. Some hang from the ceiling. Others are draped over chairs and a bed or tied to lamps. The chairs appear to be upholstered with silk and the sheets and pillowcases on the bed appear to be made of silk. One of the lamps has a fringed shade.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Possibly taken in Cheney Hall. 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.
Date created	[191-]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 21 x 26 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1979.25.149 File name 0536 img0077.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Collection	The Cheney Family and Cheney Brothers Silk Mills.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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