Governor Edmund G. Ross and Lillian Ross Leis
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1905
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions8 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (21 × 15.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.380.A
DescriptionGovernor Edmund G. Ross as an elderly man sits with his eldest daughter, Lillian Ross Leis, on doorsteps in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Edmund wears a felted, domed top hat, a single-breasted suit jacket, dark satin bowtie, slacks, and holds a cane in his right hand. Lillian sits one step below him and rests her right elbow on his knee. She also appears elderly, wears a dark gigot puffed, long-sleeved dress with a floral high collar, and wears circilar glasses. She holds white gloves in her lap. They both look off to the side. The steps they sit on lead to a wooden screen door on a white wood paneled building. A water tower and tress are behind a fence in the distance. Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss.
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