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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2023.
Leslie Salt worker harvesting salt. My job is now doomed as cheap salts are coming to America from all over the world. People don't know that most salt isn't used to eat but for the manufacturing of plastics. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2023.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2023.

Leslie Salt worker harvesting salt. My job is now doomed as cheap salts are coming to America from all over the world. People don't know that most salt isn't used to eat but for the manufacturing of plastics. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Artist Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Portfoliofrom the Working series
Credit LineGift of Susan and Neal Yanofsky
Object number2022.43.19
Not on view
Image Not Available for I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
I’m a supervisor for a drayage company and tonight we're moving an oil-derrick platform. It's 116 feet long and weighs 186 tons. It will take us three hours to go six miles. I don't think I could work sitting at a desk. My next job will be moving oil-refinery equipment to Saudi Arabia. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1976
Image Not Available for Being a salesman is easy. It's fun to manipulate people, to get a reaction, to find out where they're at. I used to be in mangagement; I hated it. All I want to do is sell furniture. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
Being a salesman is easy. It's fun to manipulate people, to get a reaction, to find out where they're at. I used to be in mangagement; I hated it. All I want to do is sell furniture. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1976
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Sony a7R II 2023.
Bill Owens
My dad always had a smile on his face so we named the company "Kruger & Sons, Home of the Happy Pickle." We are the most efficient pickle-packing plant on the West Coast, processing eight to ten million pounds of cucumbers each year. I started sorting pickles when I was ten years old. Dad would bring them home from work. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1975
Image Not Available for The summer review "Broadway's Best" was held at the ampitheater. Learning my dance routine, getting my costume ready, and learning my sons was a lot of work. It's too bad the community didn't support our efforts. Attendance was poor. I guess people have other things to do, but we still had a great time putting on the performance. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
The summer review "Broadway's Best" was held at the ampitheater. Learning my dance routine, getting my costume ready, and learning my sons was a lot of work. It's too bad the community didn't support our efforts. Attendance was poor. I guess people have other things to do, but we still had a great time putting on the performance. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969-1975
Image Not Available for I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses an play tennis to relieve the tension
Bill Owens
I can take six months or more of on-the-job training to become a microelectronics assembly technician. Only young people can do this work as your eyes don't last. The circuit I'm working on is part of a guidance system for military aircraft. I ride horses an play tennis to relieve the tension
1976
Image Not Available for (Skeet Shooters) My son Marc is the only serious black junior shooter in the Pacific International Trapshooting Association. I think trapshooting is a socially healthy sport, and if Marc becomes the best in his class, it would be good publicity fo the P.I.T.A. and for black people in gerneral. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
(Skeet Shooters) My son Marc is the only serious black junior shooter in the Pacific International Trapshooting Association. I think trapshooting is a socially healthy sport, and if Marc becomes the best in his class, it would be good publicity fo the P.I.T.A. and for black people in gerneral. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969-1975
Image Not Available for I’m a train conductor. I love railroading, it's exciting. Each trip is different and I never know where I'm going. My dad and his brothers my wife, her dad and her brothers were all railroaders. It runs in the family
Bill Owens
I’m a train conductor. I love railroading, it's exciting. Each trip is different and I never know where I'm going. My dad and his brothers my wife, her dad and her brothers were all railroaders. It runs in the family
1975, printed 2006
Image Not Available for Like every body else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon but we can only deliver half a moon. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
Like every body else, I am caught up in the rat race. I work eighty hours a week and with my real estate investments earn $100,000 a year. I just got divorced. In the insurance business, the public thinks we promise the moon but we can only deliver half a moon. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1975
Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Danny Lyon
A Toddle House in Atlanta Has the Distinction of Being Occupied during a Sit In by Some of America's Most Effective Organizers. In the Room Are Taylor Washington, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Joyce Ladner, John Lewis behind Judy Richardson, George Green, and Chico Neblett
1963-1964, printed 1999
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
Salt | Master salt
ca. 1845-1855
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2008.
John Pfahl
Great Salt Lake Angles, Great Salt Lake, Utah
October, 1977
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Jack Delano
This Family Had To Move Out Of The Area Being Taken Over By The Army For Maneuver Grounds; They Are Now Living In One Of The Pre-Fabricated Houses Built By The Farm Security Administration For These People
1941
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