Junior Hose Team

Date1895

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in. (9.4 × 7.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico

Object numberPA1978.050.325

DescriptionStudio group portrait of the Albuquerque Volunteer Fire Department Junior Hose Team at the Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Eight boys are posed for the portrait in front of a hand-painted studio backdrop. Six boys stand in the back row and two boys sit cross-legged in front with a dog named Lockhart in the center front of the group. All eight boys are dressed in a white uniform and knee-high black socks. Six of the boys are wearing dark-colored hats. Lockhart has a white colored body and a darker colored head and ears and is wearing a collar. Handwritten identifications for some of the subjects in the photograph are: Fidel Rosario, center left; Ward Anderson, top right; "Pie" Wilson, bottom right; and the dog named Lockhart, front row, center.

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