Grunsfeld Building
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1900
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 numberPA1990.013.014.B
DescriptionThe Grunsfeld Brothers' Wholesale General Merchandise building, or Grunsfeld Building, on the Northwest corner of Gold Avenue at First Street in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The building's door is oriented at an angle, aligning with the street corner. "1900" is depicted at the top of the building above the door. From the left looking west along Gold Avenue is the Office of the Daily Citizen at 113 W. Gold Avenue. There is a wagon parked in front with two figures on the sidewalk near the street corner. One sits on the curb, the other standing as he leans against an eclectic pole. At the right looking north along First Street is a barber shop with a swirling striped pole in front. Two men stand outside the shop under a fabric awning. 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.
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