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Richard Baca and Fernie Espinosa, downtown Albuquerque, 1951. Baca-Jaramillo Collection, 1998.9.5. Both boys sport fashionable pompadours.

Rita Baca near Mindlin's Jewelers, 1950. Baca-Jaramillo Collection, 1998.9.1.

Lux Girl Jackie Barnes, 1949. Kerstein Collection, 1997.18.16

La Reina Charlotte Goodwin (right) and La Princesa Maxine Hill at the Albuquerque Airport. Albuquerque's 250th Anniversary, 1956. Milo Crawford Collection, 1994.12.1.

Interior of Korber's Hardware, 200 block of Second Street, 1950. Photographer: Harvey Caplin, Ward Hicks Collection, 1982.180.736A

Designer Robert Klein showing fabric to Peggy Hooton in Old Town, 1951. Albuquerque Progress Collection, 1980.186.556

Fiesta dresses at the Old Town Costume Shop, 1951. Photographer: Harvey Caplin, Albuquerque Progress Collection, 1980.186.555.

Downtown Albuquerque looking east from 4th Street and Central, February 1943. Photographer: John Collier. Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3-018813-C

Three evening dresses from the mid to late 1950s.

1956 Ford Thunderbird. Loan Courtesy Tom Mumford. Courtesy Dick Ruddy Photography.

Two-piece dress, 1950s. Anita Bari, New York. Acetate, metallic threads. Gift of Sytha Motto, PC1976.117.16a&b. Courtesy Dick Ruddy Photography.

Janet and Charlie Kahn, Alvarado Hotel, 1969. Schultz Collection, 1999.54.4. The Kahn's wedding ceremony was the last wedding held at the Alvarado Hotel before its demolition in 1970.

The Ernie Pyle Memorial Library, 1949, Photographers: Barnes and Caplin, Courtesy UNM Library Special Collections, PA1978.50.168

Ernie Pyle in his late teens, Dana, Indiana, c. 1918, Courtesy Special Collections Library, Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System

Ernie Pyle wearing doctoral cowl, October 25, 1944, Courtesy Acme Newspictures and William Sloane Associates, Inc.

Pulitzer Prize certificate, 1944, Courtesy Indiana University Department of Journalism

Burgess Meredith, Lester Cowan, William Wellman and Ernie Pyle, c. 1945, Courtesy Special Collections Library, Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System

Charles Walsh's Curtiss Biplane at the Territorial Fair Race Track (Speed Ring), 1911. Territorial Fair Grounds, Old Town, Albuquerque. The Albuquerque Museum Photoarchives. Gift of George Pearl, 1978.1.13.

Locomotion Aerienne: Glen H. Curtiss, Sur Son Biplan, c. 1910. Aerial Locomotion - Glen H. Curtiss, On his biplane, c. 1910. Rose, Publisher. The Albuquerque Museum Photoarchives.

First Aerial View of Albuquerque, 1913. Central (formerly Railroad) and 10th Street, looking East. Roy A. Stamm, Photographer. The Albuquerque Museum Photoarchives. Gift of Allen Stamm, 1998.13.8.