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New Town
New Town
New Town

New Town

Photographer
Dateca. 1895
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 3/4 × 6 3/4 in. (12.1 × 17.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.008
DescriptionA street scene of the southeast corner of Railroad Avenue and First Street looking north and west in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. On the street corner stands the Metropolitan Hotel and Saloon at 103 West Railroad Avenue in a two-story brick building. Adjacent is Everitt's The Diamond Place at 105 West Railroad Avenue (formerly from 107 West Railroad Avenue), and the Rico Hotel and Bar to the northwest at 111 North First Street with a sign reading "Rico Café." On the dirt road is a horse-drawn trolly streetcar. Electric poles and barrels line the paved sidewalk with men standing on the sidewalk’s edge.
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Terms
    Locale
    Horse-Drawn Streetcar Trolly
    W. Calvin Brown
    ca. 1883
    Horse-Drawn Streetcar Trolly
    W. Calvin Brown
    ca. 1883
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    Cobb Studio
    ca. 1904
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    Cobb Studio
    ca. 1904
    Central Avenue Looking West
    Cobb Studio
    ca. 1935
    Hope's European Hotel
    Cobb Studio
    July 1881
    Railroad Avenue Looking West
    Cobb Studio
    ca. 1895
    Railroad Avenue Looking West
    Cobb Studio
    ca. 1895
    South First Street
    Cobb Studio
    March 1905