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"

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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"
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by Bryan Edwards, Class of 2019. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1976 (printed later)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (15.9 × 20 cm) Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (20.2 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.93
Not on view
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Stamp: "[copyright symbol] BILL OWENS / EXTRA BOOK PRINTS" on verso at lower right in black ink.
Published References Illustrated in Bill Owens, Leisure (fotofolio, 2004), p. 9.
Signature Signed "Bill Owens" on verso at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed "0868M / 2000" on verso at upper left in pencil; "L9" on verso at lower left in pencil.
Scientist in pods at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation working for NASA's second human spaceflight program, Project Gemini, St. Louis, Missouri
Scientist in pods at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation working for NASA's second human spaceflight program, Project Gemini, St. Louis, Missouri
Jean Mohr
Date: c. 1961-1966
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.221
Scientist with spacecraft in the background at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation working for NASA's second human spaceflight program, Project Gemini, St. Louis, Missouri
Scientist with spacecraft in the background at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation working for NASA's second human spaceflight program, Project Gemini, St. Louis, Missouri
Jean Mohr
Date: c. 1961-1966
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.222
St. Louis and Arch, 1978
St. Louis and Arch, 1978
Joel Meyerowitz
Date: 1978
Medium: Chromogenic contact print
Object number: 2021.12.211
St. Louis: Singleton Palmer & band in "Opera House," a turn of the century-type saloon
St. Louis: Singleton Palmer & band in "Opera House," a turn of the century-type saloon
Burt Glinn
Date: 1960
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.133
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Two hundred Negroes, mostly teenagers, were arrested after police broke up a noisy racial demonstration in the lobby of the First National Bank. The demonstrators were arrested when they sat down on the floor of the bank lobby. The protest was against alleged employment discrimination by the bank, East St. Louis, Illinois.
Bettmann Archive
Date: August 15, 1963
Medium: Vintage United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.260
15041- Main Entrance, "The Alps" in the Distance. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A.
15041- Main Entrance, "The Alps" in the Distance. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.A.
Keystone View Company
Date: 1904
Medium: Gelatin silver print mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2024.4.1
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Street, St. Louis
Joel Meyerowitz
Date: 1977
Medium: Chromogenic contact print on paper
Object number: 2014.8.14
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Lou Brock, World Series, St Louis at Boston
Walter Iooss
Date: October 1967, printed c. 2014
Medium: Inkjet print
Object number: 2016.19.5
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Cloud Study and Ferry Boat on San Francisco Bay, taken from Treasure Island
W. E. Dassonville
Date: c. 1925
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.87
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Exercise, San Francisco
Date: 2005, printed 2015
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.250
Child in Schoolyard, San Francisco
Child in Schoolyard, San Francisco
Date: c. 1965 - 1974
Medium: Vintage or early gelatin silver print
Object number: 2025.30.236
Study of pole fastened to plaster wall, San Francisco
Study of pole fastened to plaster wall, San Francisco
Lloyd Ullberg
Date: 1970s
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2020.9.274