San Jose School
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Daphne Marie Cobb
(1898 New Mexico - 1928)
Dateca. 1900
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions6 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (16.2 × 21.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.184.B
DescriptionThe exterior of the San Jose School at 2401 John Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A group of children are standing in front of a stone single-story school building with a sandy dune school ground surrounding it. Wilfred Cobb, the youngest of the photographer's four children, is third from right and his sister, Daphne Cobb, third youngest, is standing fourth from right. Most of the boys wear overalls or knickerbockers with suspenders. The young girls wear long sleeved, patterned dresses without frills and laces, but a few with simple collars and bows. A few of the teenage girls in the back of the group wear white dresses with high, laced necks and gigot puffed sleeves. The youngest of the boys sit in the dirt in the front row, their hair is short and uncombed.The Cobb family owned a photography shop, Cobb Studio, in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Daphne and Edmund Cobb were a grandchildren of Edmund G. Ross, the New Mexico territorial governor from 1885 to 1889. Daphne worked for the Cobb family photography business as a shop manager, developer, and master finisher. She was known as the local beauty and never married. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 on the train coming back from visiting her brother, Edmund, in Los Angeles, California.
Wilfred raised prize-winning Angora rabbits, worked for the Indian Irrigation Service for a time, and was involved with the Cobb family photography business as a photographer. He co-ran the studio with Eddie until 1940 when he began working at Cobb Drive-In, a restaurant owned by Fred Cobb.
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