Hope's European Hotel
Photographer
Cobb Studio
DateJuly 1881
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions9 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (23.8 × 18.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.001
DescriptionA street view of a horse-drawn trolley car on First Street between West Gold and Railroad Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Behind the cart is a two-story wood paneled hotel known as Hope's European Hotel, and later called the Sturgis Hotel. The street is dirt and men and boys walk on the street, are on the streetcar, and sit on the sidewalks. 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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