Ross Homestead

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)

Sitter Daphne Marie Cobb (1898 New Mexico - 1928)

Dateca. 1905

Mediumglass plate negative

Dimensions6 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (16.5 × 21.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen

Object numberPA1990.013.213.A

DescriptionA homestead with a small home composed of adobe bricks and wooden siding sitting in a grassy lawn surrounded by cottonwood trees in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There is a shed structure to the left with a two-wheel wagon parked outside it. Four children sit on rocks in the sun holding instruments; a violin, harp, and guitar. They look at the camera. From left to right sit the Cobb children, Susan, Wilfred, Daphne, and Edmund.

These were the children of Eddie Ross Cobb and William Cobb who owned a local photography studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Edmund G. and Fannie Lathrop Ross built this homestead south of Albuquerque, east of the AT&SF tie plant. The Ross homestead was later owned by the Cobb family and was destroyed by fire. The tamarisk hedge to right and cottonwood trees were planted by Governor Ross.

Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing loss of the image.

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