Portrait of Susan Cobb Bryer
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Sitter
Susan Cobb Beyer
(1894 New Mexico - 1987 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Dateca. 1906
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions6 × 8 1/2 in. (15.2 × 21.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.341.A
DescriptionA studio portrait of Susan Cobb Beyer as an adolescent, at the Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She poses with two wolf pups named Jack and Jill. She sits cross-legged on a rug; each dog is under a different arm and the dogs rest in her lap. She looks directly at the camera without a smile. Susan wears a long, light colored long-sleeved dress with gigot puffed sleeves. Her hair is parted to the side and pulled away from the face in a pony tail, secured with a large bow. The dogs have ropes around their necks. Susan is the second of Eddie and William Cobb's four children. They 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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