Gold Avenue Looking West from First Street
Photographer
Cobb Studio
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 numberPA1990.013.012.A
DescriptionGold Avenue looking west from First Street in New Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gold Avenue is unpaved with horse drawn carriages and pedestrians moving down the road. The street is lined with electric poles and wires. Brick storefronts face both sides of the street. On the left is the Wells Fargo Bank (short building in the center) and the Whiting Building (cone shaped roof) in the distance. 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.
Emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate causing distortion and emulsion loss.
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