This is Valerie’s world in miniature. She makes it what she wants it to be … without war, racial hate or misunderstanding. Ken and Barbie (dolls) are man and woman rather than Mom and Dad. They enjoy living and having a camper truck is the good life. Today Valerie has the chicken pox and can’t go out and play.

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This is Valerie’s world in miniature. She makes it what she wants it to be … without war, racial hate or misunderstanding. Ken and Barbie (dolls) are man and woman rather than Mom and Dad. They enjoy living and having a camper truck is the good life. Today Valerie has the chicken pox and can’t go out and play.
This is Valerie’s world in miniature. She makes it what she wants it to be … without war, racial hate or misunderstanding. Ken and Barbie (dolls) are man and woman rather than Mom and Dad. They enjoy living and having a camper truck is the good life. Today Valerie has the chicken pox and can’t go out and play.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1972 (printed 1997)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (31.1 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2025.30.123
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Markings Verso, bottom right (black ink stamp): "© Bill Owens, Edition 15/3AP, Number 12, Printed 1997"
Signature Verso, bottom right (pencil): "Bill Owens"
Inscribed Verso, bottom right (pencil): "5.30 38"
Verso, bottom left (pencil): "BO-1667M"
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.20
Dolls
Dolls
Nathan Lerner
Date: 1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.162
Antique Dolls
Antique Dolls
Earl Klein
Date: 1964
Medium: Etching and aquatint on paper
Object number: 2002.8.7
Louise's 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Louise's 66th Birthday Party: When Louise joined, the group was known as the Womens Improvement Club. Now it's the Pleasanton Womens Club. She has been instrumental in every major project that has helped to better the community. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.75
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.150
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Police Use Stretcher to Remove Demonstrator: Woman who had climbed atop roof of mobile classroom is removed down ladder by police who have encased her in a canvas stretcher bag. Only her face protrudes. She was identified as Janet Heywood, 20, of Chicago. Many other demonstrators were arrested as pickets continued to protest that the mobile units serve to maintain 'de facto' segregation. Demonstrators claim that Negro students in overcrowded schools should be sent to white schools, Chicago.
Unknown artist, American
Date: August 13, 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.240
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
War-Weary Refugee: bent and worn by the shifting tide of war that twice swept over Pyongyang, and elderly North Korean woman plods wearily over the undestroyed span of a Taedong River bridge, as she flees south from the North Korean capital December 4 ahead of the advancing Chinese Reds.
Date: 1950
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2025.30.95
Do-ce-do Around she Goes
Do-ce-do Around she Goes
William C. Palmer
Date: 1932
Medium: Etching on paper
Object number: WCP.231.6
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Long May She Wave; Lady of Liberty
Akea Brionne
Date: 2022
Medium: Framed archival inkjet print and cotton fabric panel
Object number: 2022.9.a-b
This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
This is the only gold dredge in the continental United States. It operates around the clock, seven days a week, moving three million cubic yards of sand and gravel every year. The dredge makes twenty-five cents per cubic yard and with the depressed gold market somtimes doesn't break even. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Working"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.97
A man makes his way through Petralia Soprana for the local Saints' Day Festival, Sicily
A man makes his way through Petralia Soprana for the local Saints' Day Festival, Sicily
Leonard Freed
Date: 1974
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.106
At a news conference in the Federal Building in Chicago. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin makes a point by pounding the desk. He appeared at the conference with six other defendants, charged with conspiracy to incite mob action at the Democratic Convention, who are standing behind him. They are (from left) John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger, Thomas Hayden and Rennard Davis. The eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, is in jail. The girl seated with Rubin was introduced as Nancy Kurshan, Rubin's wife.
At a news conference in the Federal Building in Chicago. Yippie leader Jerry Rubin makes a point by pounding the desk. He appeared at the conference with six other defendants, charged with conspiracy to incite mob action at the Democratic Convention, who are standing behind him. They are (from left) John Froines, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, David Dellinger, Thomas Hayden and Rennard Davis. The eighth defendant, Bobby Seale, is in jail. The girl seated with Rubin was introduced as Nancy Kurshan, Rubin's wife.
James "Jim" Palmer
Date: October 8, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.132