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 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (19.7 × 12.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.391.B
DescriptionA studio portrait of the photographer William Henry Cobb at his photography studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. William wears a three-piece wool suit with a wide patterned tie and separable starched collar. He has short hair is short, parted down the center and slicked back, and has a mustache. From his vest hangs a chin with a charm dangling from one end. It has a skull and crossbones with a sward beneath it, fans coming from behind it, and a triangle shape coming from the skill’s head with a "C" in it.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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