Irene Fenwick and Rita Stanwood at the Alvarado

Photographer William Steele Dean (1902 Ohio - 1968 Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Sitter Irene Fenwick (1887 Chicago, Illinois – 1936 Beverly Hills, California)

Sitter Rita Stanwood (1888 Salem, Massachusetts – 1961 Los Angeles, California)

Dateca. 1925

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions4 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (12.1 × 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque Public Library

Object numberPA1982.128.021

DescriptionSilent film actresses, Irene Fenwick and Rita Stanwood, stand shoulder to shoulder outside the Alvarado train station in Albuquerque, New Mexico on a brick walk way. They both wear dark, pointed toe patent shoes and felt hats. The woman at the viewer’s left wears lighter colors, a pearl necklace, belt, and holds a small clutch hand purse. Her dress has an angular collar and slit on the lower half. She looks at the camera and wraps her left hand around the other woman's shoulder. The woman on the right wears a dark sweater and skirt set with a white scalloped collar. She holds a purse slightly behind her with her gaze off to the viewer’s right. She wears brooches at the collar and another dangling from a chest pocket. An ivy-covered building is in the background.

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