Gold Avenue and Second Street
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1890
Locale
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Terms
Object numberPA1990.013.022.A
DescriptionA street view of the southeast corner of Gold Avenue and Second Street looking east towards First Street in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. A line of single and two-story brick store fronts line the dirt roads with a paved sidewalk between. The first-floor businesses include the Columbus Hotel at 204 South Second Street (proprietress Mrs. G.E. Hopkins), Solon E. Rose & Bro Hardware, George W. Hickox & Fox, Albuquerque Mercantile Company, and the Postal Telegraph Office. On the second floor is Henry Lockhart Insurance-Real Estate and Crown Point Mining Company. Parked outside along the sidewalk are a few horse drawn carts. School boys in straw boaters are gathered outside the hardware store. New Town was one of the first Anglo settlements on Tiwa land in what is now Albuquerque, established about two miles east of Albuquerque's first Hispanic city center (contemporary Old Town). New Town spanned the railyards district and a few blocks west in Albuquerque's downtown.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss. The glass plate is broken into two pieces.
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