First and Railroad Avenue
Photographer
W. Calvin Brown
Date1882
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions3 3/4 × 6 in. (9.5 × 15.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.025
DescriptionA street view looking north on the 100 block of south First Street between Gold and Railroad Avenue in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Seen are the two-story storefronts of the Grunsfeld Building which houses the Spiegelburg Brothers Dry Goods Store, First National Bank and Stein, Mandell and Company. A wagon is parked on the dirt road outside the buildings. Women, a child, and a man pose on the sidewalk on the street corner. A striped canopy hangs over the storefront behind them with a lace scalloped trim.Two identical images are printed side by side of the same support.
Railroad Avenue is now called Central Avenue and runs east to west through downtown. Albuquerque. "Railroad Avenue" came from being located along the city's railway and depot. The name was changed between 1907 and 1908. Central Avenue also overlaps with sections of the historic Route 66 Highway.
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