Colonel Harvey Saxon Farley
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1914
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.276.A
DescriptionPortrait of Colonel Harvey Saxon Farley seated in a wooden chair in Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is wearing a dark coat with a fur lapel, leather gloves, and holds a closed umbrella in his left hand. His white hair is long and he has a long mustache with twisted ends, and goatee. He is wearing round eye glasses and looks toward the camera.Colonel Harvey Saxon Farley was a member of the Confederate Army and was credited with firing the first shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, starting the Civil War. After the war, he followed the Gold Rush to California and led mining gangs. He then eventually acted in early Hollywood cinema.
On View
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April 1943
