First Street and Railroad Avenue
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1880
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (12.1 × 19.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.003.B
DescriptionA street scene looking west on Railroad Avenue from First Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hope's European Hotel is visible on the left-hand side of the street corner, along with the Armijo House, Metropolitan Building, and the Grant Opera House in other storefronts. Albuquerque Street Railroad tracks are visible in the foreground, as well as telephone poles. The road is dirt. Men and boys stand on the sidewalks and walk in the streets along with horse-drawn carts. 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.
Railroad Avenue is now called Central Avenue and runs east to west through downtown. Albuquerque. "Railroad Avenue" came from being located along the city's railway and depot. The name was changed between 1907 and 1908. Central Avenue also overlaps with sections of the historic Route 66 Highway.
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