Christmas Tree

Photographer Hedwig Menke (1912 - 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico)

DateDecember 24, 1980

Medium35mm color slide

Dimensions1 1/4 × 13/16 in. (3.2 × 2 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ken Keller

Object numberPA2021.019.042

DescriptionA small pine Christmas tree with lit wax candles balanced on the tree branches lights up a living room at Hedwig Menke's house at 2611 Schell Place Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tree has silver tinsel and ball ornaments decorating it, along with a green tree skirt decorated with angel heads wrapped around its trunk. A patterned curtain covers a window in the background.

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