Studio Portrait of Susan Cobb Bryer and Friend
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Susan Cobb Beyer
(1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1910
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (19.7 × 16.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.355.B
DescriptionSusan Cobb Bryer poses with her friend Hailie at the Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They wear matching outfits, long skirts with low pleats, high waistlines, V-neck long-sleeved blouses with round, striped collars that continue behind the shoulders, and large dark bows in their hair. Their hair is parted down the center and pulled back into buns behind the head. The blouses are fastened with string, sinching the front closed. Susan, on the left, wears a beaded choker and looks away from the camera with a faint smile. Hailie looks directly at the camera and smiles. The young women are shoulder-to-shoulder with one arm around each other.Susan Cobb Bryer was the second of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb's four children. They owned a local photography studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Susan was also a grand-daughter of the Governor Edmund G. Ross.
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