New Mexico State Fair Parade

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

DateSeptember 19, 1964

Medium35mm color slide

Dimensions7/8 × 1 5/16 in. (2.2 × 3.3 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ken Keller

Object numberPA2021.019.145

DescriptionIndigenous men walk with a with horse that pulls a travois in the New Mexico State Fair Parade on Lomas Boulevard Northeast in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The men wear white pants and white headwraps. The horse is covered in a brown blanket. The group is walking past a crowd of spectators in front of Leach Furniture and Billie's Fashion Fabrics. The stores have Googie-style signs.

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