William Cobb in the Sandias
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
William H. Cobb
(1860 New York – 1909 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1893
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 3/4 × 6 3/8 in. (19.7 × 16.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.395.B
DescriptionThe photographer William Cobb stands in a waterfall's base in the Sandia Mountains, possibly Bear Canyon, in New Mexico, with a group of kids. William leans on a large bolder with one elbow. His young son, Edmund F Cobb, sits on top of the rock wearing overalls. Behind him are two boys with riffles. They hold the guns to one eye and point into the distance. They both wears hats, bandanas around the neck, and one has overalls with a long sleeve beneath while the other wears a long sleeve shirt with trousers. On a large boulder above them are three more children and a small scruffy dog. A girl in a dress also holding a riffle to one eye, a boy in a hat holding possibly a camera, and another girl in a dress behind them both, simply standing in a shadow and looking towards the camera.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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