Susan Cobb Beyer in Costume
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Susan Cobb Beyer
(1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1914
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions6 1/2 × 8 in. (16.5 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1989 G.O. Bonds
Object numberPA1990.013.401.A
DescriptionA portrait of Susan Cobb Beyer playing in a Rio Grande Motion Picture Company film in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is dressed as a cowgirl, in a cowgirl hat, fringed and embroidered leather gloves, handkerchief as a tie, and a large bow in her long and windblown hair. She leans on an adobe wall with the sun beaming down on her face. She looks upwards and smiles. Susan was the second of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb’s four children. The Cobb family owned a photography shop, Cobb Studio, in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Susan was a granddaughter of Edmund G. Ross, the New Mexico territorial governor from 1885 to 1889. In the early 1920s, Susan became one of the first female forest rangers for the United States Forest Service where she worked for thirty years. She married Clarence Beyer who was an engineer and flood commissioner. Susan and Clarence had one daughter: Susan Willys Reid.
Emulsion flaking deterioration is occurring on the glass plate.
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