White Sands National Monument
Photographer
New Mexico State Tourist Bureau
(active 20th century)
Dateca. 1950
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 7/16 × 9 3/8 in. (18.8 × 23.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy
Object numberPA1982.181.1293
DescriptionEight children play in the sand at the base of dunes in White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, New Mexico. There are tire tracks going over a dune in the background. Footprints cover the sand in the foreground.A typed caption on the back of the photograph reads, "There is fun for the entire family here, scrambling over theese massive dunes of white gypsum. Now a National Monument the great White Sands of New Mexico draw many thousands of visitors every year. There are some 176,000 acres of these Albino Hills, composed practically of pure gypsum."
On View
Not on viewTerms
ca. 1950
