Edmund and Susan Cobb On Set
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Susan Cobb Beyer
(1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Sitter
Edmund Fessenden Cobb
(1892 Albuquerque, New Mexico - 1974 Woodland Hills, California)
Dateca. 1914
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1989 G.O. Bonds
Object numberPA1990.013.407.A
DescriptionBrother and sister, Edmund F. Cobb and Susan Cobb Beyer, pose with a group of actors and actresses on set with the Rio Grande Motion Picture Company outdoors in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Standing in a 1910 Model T-ford from left to right is Edmund F. Cobb, Susan Cobb Beyer, Henry Morris, and an unidentified actress. They are dressed in costume for a Western film outside an adobe building. In the front seat of the car sits another actor behind the steering wheel and another sitting in the passenger seat laughing. Behind the car standing on the porch are six more actors and actresses in costume.Edmund and Susan Cobb were the eldest of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb's four children. They owned a local photography shop, Cobb Studio, spanning the turn of the nineteenth century in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Edmund became an early Hollywood silent film star and stunt devil. Susan became one of the first female National Forest Park Rangers in the state of New Mexico.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing color distortion and emulsion loss.
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