William Farr Meat Market
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Date1897
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 3/4 × 7 7/8 in. (12.1 × 20 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.074.B
DescriptionWilliam Farr Meat Market located at 215 South Second Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, inside a cold storage room. Bundled butchered animals without heads with fur on the bodies are strung to the ceiling by the hindlegs to drain. On the other side of the frame is a line of three men standing closely together. Two wear straw boater hats and they all wear trousers and slack suits. The glass plate has a vertical crack.
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