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Once you hit the Freeway you can be in San Francisco in forty minutes.
Once you hit the Freeway you can be in San Francisco in forty minutes.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1971, printed 1998
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 11 7/8 in. (20.6 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.120
Not on view
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Markings Verso, lower right corner (black ink stamp): "© BILL OWENS / EDITION 15/3AP / NUMBER 2 [pencil] / PRINTED 1998 [pencil]"
Published References Illus: Bill Owens: Suburbia, Straight Arrow Books, 1972, unpag.
Bill Owens: Suburbia, fotofolio, 1999, p. 118
Signature Verso, lower right corner (pencil): "Wm Owens"
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "BO-1239M"
Verso, lower right corner (pencil): "S-4"
The Forty-Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the descendants of the Roy and Nellie Newfarmer family was the highlight of our year. When there are seventy people for dinner you have to be organized. We have carving an serving committees, games and a family quilt everyone sews on. A silent auction pays for the three turkeys. More families should be proud of their heritage. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
The Forty-Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the descendants of the Roy and Nellie Newfarmer family was the highlight of our year. When there are seventy people for dinner you have to be organized. We have carving an serving committees, games and a family quilt everyone sews on. A silent auction pays for the three turkeys. More families should be proud of their heritage. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.83
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
You have to be in good physical condition in the fence business because it's hard work. Everybody in the business is related, either your brother or your cousin works for us or for another fence company. Our product is better than the customer expects. We use the best materials and do the job right., from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1974-76 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.91
I spent $100 on the plane kit and 50 hours assembling it. My goal is not to crash it in the first ten minutes. Mission Peak, Fremont, California, from the series "Leisure"
I spent $100 on the plane kit and 50 hours assembling it. My goal is not to crash it in the first ten minutes. Mission Peak, Fremont, California, from the series "Leisure"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.72
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by B…
The last thing I did before leaving for San Francisco after my dad died was watch fireworks explode over the St. Louis arch on the Fourth of July. Two days later I crested a hill on Route 80 and saw the expanse of San Francisco Bay for the first time. It was so beautiful I cried. St. Louis, Missouri, from the series "Leisure"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.93
I've taught my baton class through all my pregnancies. The exercise has been good for me. I didn't close my baton studio because there'd be forty girls without a teacher.
I've taught my baton class through all my pregnancies. The exercise has been good for me. I didn't close my baton studio because there'd be forty girls without a teacher.
Bill Owens
Date: 1975, printed 1999
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.123
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have to have personality to deal with the public.
A banana split has one banana, three lumps of ice milk, crushed pineapple, strawberries, chocolate syrup and whipped cream. In two days of our forty-nine cent special we sold five thousand splits. Businessmen want a pretty face at the counter and counter girls have to have personality to deal with the public.
Bill Owens
Date: 1976, printed 1999
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.131
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by B…
As long as I can work here I will. It's better than housework. Cauliflower packing is hard work but I don't even think about it. My hands go through the motions, my mind's somewhere else. The season lasts six months, then I pack tomatoes and collect unemployment for the rest of the year., from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1975 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.84
I like working at the shelter workshop. I can be productive and be part of the community. I make money and pay my own way. On my days off I watch TV, ride my bike and write letters to my friends. Someday I'm thinking of getting married.
I like working at the shelter workshop. I can be productive and be part of the community. I make money and pay my own way. On my days off I watch TV, ride my bike and write letters to my friends. Someday I'm thinking of getting married.
Bill Owens
Date: 1975
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.65
The Ballet Folklorica de Livermore gives our youth a sense of the Mexican heritage. Each year we have a community dinner to raise funds and give a sample performance of what can be seen at our dance program, Livermore, California
The Ballet Folklorica de Livermore gives our youth a sense of the Mexican heritage. Each year we have a community dinner to raise funds and give a sample performance of what can be seen at our dance program, Livermore, California
Bill Owens
Date: c. 1974
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.70
Feeling the Sword, Sword Swallower, Saratoga, NY, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Feeling the Sword, Sword Swallower, Saratoga, NY, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.22
Playgirl, Lincoln Park, Route 6, Westport, MA, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Playgirl, Lincoln Park, Route 6, Westport, MA, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.33
Counter, Al-mac's Diner, Route 6, Fall River, MA, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Counter, Al-mac's Diner, Route 6, Fall River, MA, from the series "You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 6, Boston Globe"
Henry Horenstein
Date: 1985 (printed c. 1985)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.61