Water Works
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 numberPA1990.013.063.B
DescriptionAlbuquerque Water Supply Company located at North Broadway between Tijeras Avenue (formerly Washington Avenue) and Railroad Avenue in Albuquerque New Mexico. The office was located at 312 West Gold Avenue. The building is a small, single-story brick structure with rounded windows and a French door entrance with a rounded window on top. The hip style roof has a raised central column with rounded slat ventilation windows. The building has two chimney stacks and a metal smock stack with dark smock billowing out, and wires streaming from them. The grounds around the building have a few young leafless trees with a fence surrounding. Railroad Avenue's name was changed around 1908 to what is now Central Avenue. Central Avenue also overlaps with the historic Route 66.
Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion in the image.
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