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.

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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.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1976, printed 1999
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm) Image: 9 3/4 × 12 5/8 in. (24.8 × 32.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2024.21.131
Not on view
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Markings Verso, lower right (black ink stamp): "© BILL OWENS / EDITION 15/3AP / NUMBER 4 [pencil] / PRINTED 1999 [pencil]"
Published References Illus: Bill Owens: Working, fotofolio, 2008, p. 83 & back cover
Bill Owens: Working [I Do It For The Money], Simon and Schuster, 1977, pl. 48.
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): "Wm Owens"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (pencil): "BO 2040M"
Verso, bottom right corner, sideways (pencil): "W48"
Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Canal Does Double Duty: A small boar is maneuvered along a canal in the Cai San area of South Viet Nam where thousands of acres of abandoned land have been reclaimed through the American aid program. This canal, while serving as a transportation route, also provides water for rice planting. The area is included in the resettlement program that has benefited some 12,000 refugee families from communist North Viet Nam, Cai San, South Viet Nam
Unknown artist
Date: August 22, 1959
Medium: Vintage newswire
Object number: 2023.12.187
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Ordered to Leave England: "Yippie" leader Jerry Rubin makes clenched fist salute as he's taken in police car, escorted by a Special Branch detective, here November 13th, Rubin and a companion, Stewart Albert, have been advised they will be deported unless they leave Britain voluntarily.
Unknown artist, American
Date: November 13, 1970
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2024.21.247
Photo by Richard Walker.
Woman With Strawberries
Peppino Mangravite
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object number: 1983.13
Counter Event
Counter Event
Walter Feldman
Date: 1960
Medium: Color woodcut on paper
Object number: 1984.119
Photo by John Bentham.
Men in Financial Transaction at Counter, Israel
Leonard Freed
Date: 1968
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.40
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
US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
US stewardesses change dollars into Chinese currency (yuan) at Bank of China counter at Shanghai airport under large picture of Chairman Mao. Stewardesses bought souvenirs at friendship stores during stopover of US newsmen flight from Hawaii to Peking
Horst Faas
Date: February 20, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.194
Helmeted police at roadblock at 147th Street and Wood, one of several set up to prevent outsiders and troublemakers from entering the riot-torn community of Dixmoor, Illinois. All stores in the community have agreed to close their doors at 6 p.m. and the sales of liquor and firearms in the area have been halted
Helmeted police at roadblock at 147th Street and Wood, one of several set up to prevent outsiders and troublemakers from entering the riot-torn community of Dixmoor, Illinois. All stores in the community have agreed to close their doors at 6 p.m. and the sales of liquor and firearms in the area have been halted
Date: August 18, 1964
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.270
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
Shylock, We Would Have Money and Votes, from "Harper's Weekly"
Shylock, We Would Have Money and Votes, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 6, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.191
Our President Puts his foot Down, and the British Lion Will Have to Wriggle Out, from "Harper's Weekly"
Our President Puts his foot Down, and the British Lion Will Have to Wriggle Out, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published July 6, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.192
Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
Illinois National Guard troops stand on a Chicago street in area where violent disturbances have caused death and injury the last three nights, July 15, 1966. Governor Otto Kerner called up 3,000 National Guard troops today in an attempt to halt the strife on Chicago's West Side
Date: July 17, 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.269