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Family Portrait
Family Portrait
Family Portrait

Family Portrait

Photographer
Dateca. 1900
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 7/8 × 6 3/8 in. (20 × 16.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.318.B
DescriptionA six-member family poses in the Cobb Studio for a group portrait in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are three young children standing in front of the parents and a baby propped on a pedestal in-between. The parents stand in the back wearing a three-piece suit and dress. The women in wearing round wire glasses. The infant wears a white gown, along with one of the children, whom also wears a single-stranded beaded necklace, light colored leggings and shoes. One of the children wears a tweed jacket and knickerbockers, satin tie and stripped button-down. The other is dressed in a children's military style jacket, knickerbockers, hat, belt, and leather strap that spans diagonally over one shoulder. They stand on a small carpet inside the studio, smiling at the camera.
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