Electric Light
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 numberPA1990.013.064.B
DescriptionAlbuquerque Electric Light Company located at 100 East Gold Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The building is brick, single-story and rectangular with a flat roof. It has two chimney stacks and a tall metal smock stack. The yard around the building is mostly dirt with piles of bricks and scrap lumber surrounding. In the background are electric wires. There is a parked train car behind the building reading, "Furniture Car. 9026..."Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss in the image.
On View
Not on viewTerms
Locale
ca. 1920
