Sarah Rooke's Gravestone
Photographer
Ralph Looney
(1924 Lexington, Kentucky - 2000 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
DateSeptember 3, 1988
Mediumsilver negative
Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of the Estate of Ralph and Clarabel Looney
Object numberPA2006.021.477
DescriptionA boulder with a plaque marking the grave of Sarah "Sally" J. Rooke, a telephone operator in Folsom, New Mexico, who was washed away in a flood in 1908. The boulder is in Folsom Cemetery. There are small wildflowers growing around the base of the stone. The plaque has her name and a short story of her death embossed on it. Other graves and markers are in the background.On View
Not on view
ca. 1940
