Cobb Family Children
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)
Sitter
Daphne Marie Cobb
(1898 New Mexico - 1928)
Dateca. 1906
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions8 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (21.6 × 16.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.334.A
DescriptionThe Cobb family children pose together outdoors with instruments in Albuquerque, New Mexico. From back of the group moving forward stands the eldest, Edmund F. Cobb, holding a violin to his shoulder. In front of him sitting with a guitar on her knee and fingers in a strumming position is Susan Cobb Beyer. Beside her sitting in the shade with a cat on her lap is Daphne Cobb, with Wilfred Cobb, the youngest, in front of her. A large dog with a white body and black spotted head sits beside Susan. Behind the children is a thick wall of trees. Wilfred and Daphne wear matching checkered dresses, Susan is in light-colored blouse and dark skirt, and Edmund is dressed in overalls with a dark button-down beneath.
The four Cobb children are the grandchildren of Governor Edmund G. Ross. Eddie Ross Cobb and her husband, William Cobb, owned a local photography studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss.
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