Picture This! Podcast
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Picture This Ep1
Van Tassel Balloon Launch
Go on a balloon ride with saloon-keeper Park Van Tassel as we look at the photograph of his historic launch from what was then downtown Albuquerque—way back in 1882.
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Dawson, New Mexico
Dig into New Mexico mining history. Dawson, New Mexico, located southwest of Raton in Colfax County, was a vibrant mining town in the early 1900s. Immigrant miners flocked to the area.
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Lovelace Astronaut Program
Look at Albuquerque’s place in the history of spaceflight and what it took to become one of the first NASA astronauts. In the Photo Archives of the Albuquerque Museum is a photograph showing two candidates for NASA’s Mercury Program wearing space suits and standing outside of a room at Lovelace Clinic.
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Itinerant Photographer
Look at the world of an itinerant photographer during the American Depression of the early 1930s.
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King Albert I Visits Isleta
Travel with the King of Belgium as he visits the Pueblo of Isleta on his first tour of North America in 1919. In the Photo Archives of the Albuquerque Museum is a photograph of King Albert I of Belgium wearing a military uniform and standing with a group of people near the St. Augustine Mission Church at the Pueblo of Isleta.
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Streetcars and Motorettes
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Let the Sunshine In
A street photography project commissioned by the Albuquerque Museum in 1969 to document the city during a time of great change. In the Albuquerque Museum are thousands of 35mm color slides marked with the name “McDonald” and dated 1969 and 1970.
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Albuquerque Dukes
Go out to the ballgame with the Albuquerque Dukes minor league baseball team! In the photo archives of the Albuquerque Museum are photographs of the Albuquerque Dukes from the 1940s and 1950s. They were the longest running professional franchise in Albuquerque and had some big names associated with them throughout the years.
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New Mexicans in WWI
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Castle Huning
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Alabama Milner
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B.B. King in Placitas
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Harvey Girls
Picture This Ep14
Laundry Strike of 1919
Picture This Ep15
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Thank you for joining us for Picture This! from the Albuquerque Museum! Join us next time for the story behind another photograph in the Museum’s collection.