Elias Stover

Photographer Cobb Studio

Sitter Elias Stover 1836 Saint George, Maine - 1927 Albuquerque, New Mexico

Dateca. 1905

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions8 × 6 3/8 in. (20.3 × 16.2 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase

Object numberPA1990.013.290.B

DescriptionPortrait of Elias Stover, the first President of the University of New Mexico, in front of a hand-painted backdrop seated in Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has gray hair, a bushy beard and mustache. He wears a three-piece single-breasted suit, starched white collar and bowtie, and has pins attached to his vest and suit jacket. The circular pin on the vest has an American flag on it. He is facing the camera.

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