Horse-Drawn Streetcar Trolly
Photographer
W. Calvin Brown
Dateca. 1883
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (12.4 × 20 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.009.B
DescriptionA street scene of the southeast corner of Railroad Avenue and First Street looking north and west in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the street corner stands the Metropolitan Hotel and Saloon at 103 West Railroad Avenue in a two-story brick building. Adjacent is Everitt's The Diamond Place at 105 West Railroad Avenue (formerly from 107 West Railroad Avenue), and the Rico Hotel and Bar to the northwest at 111 North First Street with a sign reading "Rico Café." On the dirt road is a horse-drawn trolly streetcar. Electric poles and barrels line the paved sidewalk with men standing on the sidewalk’s edge. 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.
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.
Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss.
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