Billie Dove at the Alvarado
Photographer
William Steele Dean
(1902 Ohio - 1968 Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Sitter
Billie Dove
(1903 New York, New York – 1997 Los Angeles, California)
Dateca. 1925
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions2 3/8 × 4 1/4 in. (6.1 × 10.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque Public Library
Object numberPA1982.128.138
DescriptionBillie Dove, actress, pilot, poet, and painter, stands outside the Alvarado station in Albuquerque, New Mexico on a brick walkway. There are wagons and wooden cargo boxes stacked behind her. She stands to her side, revealing her left profile. Her hair is pinned back in finger-waves. She is wrapped in a dark shawl with embroidered characters. Beneath is a light-colored rounded collard blouse with a dark tie and dark skirt. She holds papers in her hands. She wears a beaded choker with matching dangling earrings.On View
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