Two Men with Horses on West Gold Avenue
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1909
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions6 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (16.5 × 20.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.010.A
DescriptionTwo men with horses stand in front of the Star Furniture Company at 214 West Gold Avenue in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Home Restaurant can also be seen next to a furniture company and a hardware store with signs reading, "PAPER, "GLASS," and "PAINTS." Both men wear dark trousers, white shirts, and wide brimmed hats. There are stripped woven saddle blankets beneath the saddles. Gold Avenue is unpaved.Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss.
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.
New Town was one of the first Anglo settlements on Tiwa land in what is now Albuquerque, established about two miles east of Albuquerque's first Hispanic city center (contemporary Old Town). New Town spanned the railyards district and a few blocks west in Albuquerque's downtown.
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