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Edmund and Susan Cobb On Set
Edmund and Susan Cobb On Set
Edmund and Susan Cobb On Set

Edmund and Susan Cobb On Set

Photographer
Dateca. 1914
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions6 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (16.2 × 18.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1989 G.O. Bonds
Object numberPA1990.013.406.B
DescriptionEdmund F. Cobb and Henry Morris pose with another actor actors on set with the Rio Grande Motion Picture Company outdoors in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They wear heavy makeup and are dressed in Western, cowboy costumes. They sit on a porch and act out an argument with the actors pointing fingers at each other.

Edmund was the eldest of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb's four children. They owned a local photography shop, Cobb Studio, spanning the turn of the nineteenth century in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Edmund became an early Hollywood silent film star and stunt devil.


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