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Mourners pose for a picture inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel
Mourners pose for a picture inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel
Mourners pose for a picture inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel

Mourners pose for a picture inside the Hyatt Regency Hotel

DateMay 10, 2011
MediumBorn-digital photograph
Dimensions3 9/16 × 4 11/16 in. (9 × 12 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Alondra Toca-Diaz
Object numberPA2019.048.003
DescriptionHyatt Regency Hotel employees dress in Prohibition-era costumes and pose as mock-mourners for the lowering of the restaurant sign of McGrath's Bar and Grill at 330 Tijeras Avenue NW in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The nine women and three men stand in a tiled lobby area of the hotel and look toward the camera. The women are wearing brightly colored dresses, feathered boas around their necks, and headbands around their heads. One women holds a paper umbrella. The men are wearing dark suits and patterned ties.
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