Cobb Family Portrait
Photographer
Cobb Studio
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
Dimensions6 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (15.9 × 21 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.333.A
DescriptionA studio portrait of Susan Cobb Beyer and her brother Edmund F. Cobb at the Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The babies sit on the floor atop a blanket. Surrounding them, are dead ducks. Susan holds a pencil in her right hand and wears a pleated dress with gigot sleeves. Beside her sits Edmond who wears a button-down shirt with a large collar spanning his shoulders and a bow around his neck. Edmund and Susan were the eldest children of Eddie and William Cobb, owners of a local photography studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Emulsion flaking is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss.
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