Edmund Cobb on Horseback
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Edmund Fessenden Cobb
(1892 Albuquerque, New Mexico - 1974 Woodland Hills, California)
Dateca. 1903
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions6 1/4 × 8 3/8 in. (15.9 × 21.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.350.A
DescriptionEdmund Cobb poses on horseback outdoors in New Mexico. He is dressed like a cowboy, with a sued cowboy hat, handkerchief around the neck, button-down long-sleeve shirt, and shin high embroidered leather boots in the saddle's stirrups. Attached to the saddle in a lasso. The hose is light colored with dark speckles all over and its mane is groomed. Edmund holds the reins with one hand and looks at the camera with a stoic expression. Edmund F Cobb is the grandson of Governor Edmund G Ross. The horse Edmond rides was named after William Pitt Fessenden of Maine, who was a friend of Governor Ross. Edmund was also the eldest of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb's four children. They owned a local photography studio, Cobb Studio, spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss.
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