Cobb and Ross Family Gathering
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
William H. Cobb
(1860 New York – 1909 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Sitter
Edmund Fessenden Cobb
(1892 Albuquerque, New Mexico - 1974 Woodland Hills, California)
Sitter
Susan Cobb Beyer
(1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1895
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.385
DescriptionTerritorial Governor Edmund G. Ross, after retirement, with his family in New Mexico. They are gathered outside their family homestead south of Albuquerque and the AT&SF Topeka railway. Included in the group from right to left winding counter clockwise is William Cobb sitting on the steps with toddler Susan Cobb Beyer on her lap, Edmund G. Ross in a satin top hat and holding a cane, little Edmund F. Cobb in a floral dress beside him, Arthur Ross holding a squirming child (likely his son Rodney Ross), and Pitt Ross standing cross armed beside him on the far left with his wife Maria Clementine Ross standing against the home in a shirtwaist outfit with dark trim behind him. Young Edmund "Ed" Ross stands on the porch between Pitt and Clemie. Lillian Ross Leis sits in the center of the porch in a dark princess line outfit, May Ross (Arthur's wife) stands in the doorway beside her, and Lillian's son Tracy Flynt Leis stands directly behind grandfather Edmund G. Ross in a black hat. The home is adobe brick with a wooden lean-to on the side. The property is lined with fencing and the Sandia Mountains are seen on the horizon. Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss
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