Albuquerque Museum History Collection

Deborah C. Slaney is curator of history at the Albuquerque Museum. She was consulting curator for Only in Albuquerque, companion exhibition to this book. She has curated numerous other exhibitions including Fabulous: The New Look of Albuquerque in the Fifties; Jewel of the Railroad Era: Albuquerques Alvarado Hotel; and Route 66: Radiance, Rust, and Revival on the Mother Road. Her publications include Blue Gem, White Metal: Carvings and Jewelry from the C. G. Wallace Collection; Wonders of the Weavers/Maravillas de los tejedores: Nineteenth-Century Rio Grande Weavings from the Collection of the Albuquerque Museum; and Jewel of the Railroad Era: Albuquerques Alvarado Hotel. Slaney was project director for Dreamscape Desperado: Billy the Kid and the Outlaw in America and Hollywood Southwest: New Mexico in Film and Television.