Railroad Avenue Looking West
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1895
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 numberPA1990.013.007.B
DescriptionA street scene on Railroad Avenue looking west from First Street in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. At the left stands the European Hotel and the Armijo House. On the right is the Metropolitan Building, the Albuquerque National Bank, and Zeiger's Café. A man on horseback trots in front of Metropolitan Building. Telephone poles and lines are visible on both sides of street. 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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