Albuquerque National Bank
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1890
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions4 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. (11.7 × 19.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.087.A
DescriptionThe interior of Albuquerque National Bank located inside the Cromwell Building on 100 block of West Gold and Second Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Various employees and a customer pose from behind and in front of the teller's cage. The cage is made of carved wood with rod iron detailing or glass over the windows. The floor is checkered tiling. One man stands at the counter being served by a cashier behind rod iron. The customer wears a well-worn wide brimmed hat, trousers, slack suit jacket, vest with a white collard button-down shirt beneath, small black bowtie, and a pocket watch chain looping down from the vest. One elbow leans on the stone counter while the other hand rests on the counter's edge. He holds a paper in the left hand. He has a large, shaped mustache.
A small urn-like vase is on the tiled floor beneath the teller's counter. A clerk sits with his side and back to the camera as he sits at a desk and looks down behind the teller's wall.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss.
On View
Not on viewTerms
Locale
ca. 1950
