We're home three weekends a year. Our camper is our real home. Being a member of the National Campers and Hikers Association gives our family the opportunity and the enjoyment of getting out of town every weekend...and to camp with other families.

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We're home three weekends a year. Our camper is our real home. Being a member of the National Campers and Hikers Association gives our family the opportunity and the enjoyment of getting out of town every weekend...and to camp with other families.
We're home three weekends a year. Our camper is our real home. Being a member of the National Campers and Hikers Association gives our family the opportunity and the enjoyment of getting out of town every weekend...and to camp with other families.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1971, printed 1998
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 8 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (22.2 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.129
Not on view
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Markings Verso, lower right corner (black ink stamp): "© BILL OWENS / EDITION 15/3AP / NUMBER 1 [pencil] / PRINTED 1998 [pencil]"
Published References Illus: Bill Owens: Suburbia, Straight Arrow Books, 1972, unpag.
Bill Owens: Suburbia, fotofolio, 1999, p. 29
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): "Wm Owens"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "BO 2033M"
Verso, lower right corner (pencil): "S22"
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
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
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Women's Lot is Poverty: an Indian woman rests in her "home," in squatter area of Bombay. A girl plays nearby. Other families live in similar shocking poverty. Indian women have followed their husbands from the drought stricken rural homes to the cities where they had hope of finding food and shelter
Horst Faas
Date: March 8, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.199
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.84
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
The Rotary Club has 752,000 members in 150 countries. It was started in 1905 by a group of businessmen for their mutual benefit. The name derives from the original plan to "rotate" the location of each meeting. Today Rotary is a club devoted to four types of service: Club, Community, Vocational and International. We are still growing and add at least one new club to our worldwide membership every day. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.95
Mardi Gras is one of the biggest money making events the Pleasanton Juniors stage each year. We have king and queen candidates who hold money making events (dances, fashion shows, family pizza night, etc.) The candidate who raises the most money wins. Last year we raised $12,800.00 for the senior citizens transportation system and $1000.00 for youth counseling programs. The final event is the Mardi Gras Ball, over 500 people attended to drink, eat, dance and celebrate the coronation. Pleasanton, California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Mardi Gras is one of the biggest money making events the Pleasanton Juniors stage each year. We have king and queen candidates who hold money making events (dances, fashion shows, family pizza night, etc.) The candidate who raises the most money wins. Last year we raised $12,800.00 for the senior citizens transportation system and $1000.00 for youth counseling programs. The final event is the Mardi Gras Ball, over 500 people attended to drink, eat, dance and celebrate the coronation. Pleasanton, California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: c. 1975
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.77
They cut down our tree forts to put in some new houses. We want our trees back. They paid us five dollars to keep people back while they cut up the trees, but we're not going to keep anybody out.
They cut down our tree forts to put in some new houses. We want our trees back. They paid us five dollars to keep people back while they cut up the trees, but we're not going to keep anybody out.
Bill Owens
Date: 1972
Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed later
Object number: 2023.12.67
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Vietnam Shepard: Carrying a walking stick over his shoulder and his M16 rifle in his hand, a soldier of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division herds a group of Vietnamese families to a helicopter landing zone for interrogation. The Vietnamese were rounded up after a brief firefight at a village near Duc Pho, about 325 miles north of Saigon, during a search and clear operation
Unknown artist
Date: August 1, 1967
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.188
Untitled (Hikers, Route 1580), France, from the "Roads" series
Untitled (Hikers, Route 1580), France, from the "Roads" series
Pierre Boucher
Date: 1930-1939
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.52
The Eagle Squares is one of 100 clubs in the Northern California Square Dancing Association. We called our group Eagle Squares because we used to dance in the Eagles Hall. My wife and I started when some neighbors talked us into taking a beginning square dance class. We found dancing to be good clean fun, something we could do together with little expense involved. Livermore, California.
The Eagle Squares is one of 100 clubs in the Northern California Square Dancing Association. We called our group Eagle Squares because we used to dance in the Eagles Hall. My wife and I started when some neighbors talked us into taking a beginning square dance class. We found dancing to be good clean fun, something we could do together with little expense involved. Livermore, California.
Bill Owens
Date: 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print, printed later
Object number: 2023.12.66
Our singing group will take any opportunity to perform, especially if it's a captive audience. (Flights to Hawaii)
Our singing group will take any opportunity to perform, especially if it's a captive audience. (Flights to Hawaii)
Bill Owens
Date: 1978, printed 2005
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2024.21.127
Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House Un-American Activities committee. After violence in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat on curb. The committee held last day of hearings into communist activitites here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones a member of the Negro-American Labor Council, Chicago.
Demonstrators come well equipped outside the House Un-American Activities committee. After violence in which 40 demonstrators were arrested, pickets sat down and played tape recorder and played guitar while others sat on curb. The committee held last day of hearings into communist activitites here. Man standing is Wilberforce Jones a member of the Negro-American Labor Council, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 27, 1965
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.241