Fannie Ross at her Homestead
Photographer
W. Calvin Brown
Dateca. 1886
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions4 1/8 × 7 3/4 in. (10.5 × 19.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.209.B
DescriptionFacing eastward is a small one-room homestead with a lean-to off the back in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tiny home has two small metal smoke stacks coming from the peaked open gable roof. The home is surrounded by a handmade wood and chicken wire fence with a small coop or shed to the left. There is a clothing line and ladder in the yard. An older women, Fannie Ross, stands in a dark dress and light apron outside the open door of the home. The Sandia Mountain range can be seen in the distance. Two small sapling trees are in front of the home with only a few small leaves on its branches. Fannie Lathrop Ross was married to Edmund G. Ross, the Territorial Governor of New Mexico from 1885 to 1889. Fannie and Edmund built this homestead south of Albuquerque, and east of the AT&SF tie plant.
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