Studio Portrait of William Cobb
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
William H. Cobb
(1860 New York – 1909 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1898
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 3/8 × 4 7/8 in. (18.7 × 12.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.390.B
DescriptionA studio portrait of the photographer William Henry Cobb at his photography shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. William wears a tam-o’-shanter or tam cap with a large pompom on his head. He wears several layers including a canvas coat, jacket, a corduroy vest, and a wool sweater with corduroy trousers, knee high boots, and poses with a surveyor tripod. One hand holds the equipment while the other rests in his coat pocket. He looks at the camera. He has short hair and a mustache. William Cobb and his wife, Eddie Ross Cobb, owned Cobb Studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. He arrived in Albuquerque in the late 1800s as a surveyor searching to heal from Tuberculosis. They had four children together. William died due to Tuberculosis in 1909 and Eddie kept the shop running for over thirty more years with the help of her children.
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