Women at White Sands National Monument
Photographer
New Mexico State Tourist Bureau
(active 20th century)
Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 5/8 × 9 7/16 in. (19.4 × 24 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.802
DescriptionTwo young women sit and lay on the dunes in White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, New Mexico. One woman smiles at the camera as she sits on teh top of a dune and lets a handfull of sand fall out of her hands. A second woman is lying on her stomach on the dune to the right and smiles toward the camera. There are other dunes in the background. Both women are barefoot and wearing short-sleeved shirts and shorts.A typed caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Here are gypsum sands,, not snow. This "White Sands" covers more than 176,000 acres in the Tularosa Basin. It has grown to be a popular playground the year around. The great dunes, heaped up by vagrant winds might well by snow drifts of the Yukon."
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ca. 1950
