Covered Wagon Souvenir Shop
DateOctober 1954
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions4 1/16 × 2 5/16 in. (10.3 × 5.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2019.041.014
DescriptionA family pose on the front wooden bench seat of a prop at the Covered Wagon Souvenir Shop at 14001 East Central Avenue at the west entrance to Tijeras Canyon near Albuquerque, New Mexico. The souvenir shop is located on Route 66. Two little girls, Barbara and Carolyn, wear souvenir feathered war bonnets and sit between a middle-aged woman and a middle-aged man on the driver’s bench attached to an adobe "covered wagon" that is built into the side of the shop building. The covered part of the wagon is an adobe arch. Over a window of the adobe arch is a painted sign that reads, “Albuquerque or Bust”. On the side of the wagon's bench seat is a sign that reads, “Use STEPS on other side”. Two wooden oxen are displayed as hitched to the wagon. Cacti are growing near the oxen.On View
Not on view
ca. 1955
October 1954
ca. 1950
