Hilton Hotel Lobby

Dateca. 1949

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in. (23 × 18.9 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy

Object numberPA1982.180.585.A

DescriptionThis image depicts the decorative details inside the lobby of the Hilton Hotel at Second Street and Copper Avenue in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The decorations in the photograph are situated around the cashiers and front desk of the hotel. Two people can be seen from the neck up in the photograph. A woman can be seen behind the glass of the cashier station in the lower left corner of the frame. She is looking directly at the camera. A young man is standing in between the cashier stations near the lower right corner of the frame. A wooden frame surrounds the window of the cashier station. A metal and neon sign, that is switched off, hangs from the ceiling above the cashier reads "Cashier". A light fixture made to look like a candle can be seen on the wall above the young man. A set of chimes can be seen above the light fixture hanging from high on the wall.

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