Storefront, Apache Canyon Trading Post on Routes 62 and 180 in Whites City, New Mexico

by John Margolies

This original photograph taken by John Margolies shows the Storefront of the Apache Canyon Trading Post. This is a famous landmark that is located on Routes 62 and 180 in Whites City, New Mexico. Taken with a blue sky in the background, the photo emphasizes the unusual jagged parapet, beautiful Native American paintings, old yellow-and-red truck, and signs at the side of the road.

The photograph belongs to the Library of Congress Roadside America archive, and makes a great example of a fine art print dedicated to the culture of traveling, folk art, and desert architecture of the middle of the last century.