Daphne Cobb Reading a Kodak Manual
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Daphne Marie Cobb
(1898 New Mexico - 1928)
Dateca. 1920
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions9 1/2 × 8 in. (24.1 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.399.B
DescriptionDaphne Cobb reads the manual for a Kodak camera at Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The portrait is reflected in an upright table mirror. Daphne wears a velvet beret and wide collared jacket. Daphne Cobb was the third of the Cobb family’s four children. The Cobb family owned a photography studio in New Town, Albuquerque. Daphne was a granddaughter of Edmund G. Ross, the New Mexico territorial governor from 1885 to 1889. She worked for the Cobb family photography business as a shop manager, developer, and master finisher. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 29.
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