Mile End Grocery

Dateca. 1900

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions5 × 7 3/4 in. (12.7 × 19.7 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen

Object numberPA1990.013.091.B

DescriptionThe exterior of Mile-End Grocery, location in New Mexico. The store is housed in a small single-story wood sided building. A ditch with a wooden boardwalk over it separates the shop from the dirt road. There is a raised deck in front of the shop with boxes and crates stacked in one corner. Beside the shop is a small adobe building. Several advertisements are painted onto the building's exterior: "THE MILE-END," "GROCERY," "PROVISIONS," "FINE CANDY," and "CIGARS AND TOBACCO." On a tall wooden post outside the store is a sign on a piece of wood nailed to the post reading, "TIENDA BARATA." Five figures pose outside the store behind the ditch. A small child in a gigot puffed long sleeved dress and a high-crown hat holding the hand of a man in high waisted trousers, a collared shirt with suspenders and a bowtie, and a newsboy cap. Beside him on the other side of the post is a women dressed in a shirtwaist outfit and holds a baby. Beside her, is another women in a long pinstriped skirt and round collard top. There is a shawl over her shoulders and holds a dark colored umbrella over her head.

Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss. The top left corner of the plate is broken.

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