Water Works

Dateca. 1895

Mediumglass plate negative

Dimensions4 3/4 × 7 3/4 in. (12.1 × 19.7 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen

Object numberPA1990.013.063.A

DescriptionAlbuquerque Water Supply Company located at North Broadway Boulevard between Tijeras Avenue (formerly Washington Avenue) and Railroad Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The office is located at 312 West Gold Avenue. The building is a small, single-story brick structure with rounded windows and a French door entrance with a rounded window on top. The hip-style roof has a raised central column with rounded slat ventilation windows. The building has two chimney stacks and a metal smokestack with dark smoke billowing out. The grounds around the building have a few young leafless trees with a fence surrounding.

Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion in the image.

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