Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances

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Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
Time On His Hands: Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, leader of the Youth International Party (Yippies), has time to think after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances
DateDecember 3, 1970
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/8 × 8 in. (25.7 × 20.3 cm) Image: 8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in. (21.9 × 16.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2022.15.294
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Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art)
Markings Recto, bottom: "(CX7) CHICAGO, Dec. 3--TIME ON HIS HANDS--Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman, / leader of the Youth Internatiional Party (Yippies), has time to think / after he surrendered to authorities in Chicago Thursday to begin / serving a 15-day jail sentence for resisting arrest. Hoffman surrendered / after having exhausted appeals possibilities arrest. Hoffman surrendered after having exhausted appeals possibilities from his conviction stem- / ming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention disturbances. / (AP Wirephoto) (lab51602s-t) 1970." (typewritten)
Verso, center: "DEC 4 1970"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner: "ANTI-CHI-121 2500"
In Each Other's Arms: Jerry Rubin, one of seven Chicago Conspiracy defendants, embraces his wife, Nancy, in Chicago Saturday, following his release on bail. Rubin and the six other defendants were granted bail by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They had been serving their sentences for crossing state lines to incite riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
In Each Other's Arms: Jerry Rubin, one of seven Chicago Conspiracy defendants, embraces his wife, Nancy, in Chicago Saturday, following his release on bail. Rubin and the six other defendants were granted bail by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. They had been serving their sentences for crossing state lines to incite riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
James "Jim" Palmer
Date: February 28, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.133
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Accused of Conspiracy: John R. Froines, right, a University of Oregon professor, surrendered himself to federal authorities Friday in Portland. He is accused of teaching the use of incendiary devices and conspiring to cause riots at the Democratic National Convention. With him are his wife Ann and his lawyer, her but Titus, a university law school professor, Portland Oregon.
Unknown artist, American
Date: March 21, 1969
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.253
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
In the midst of gloom of a rainy Friday night in the Army, the troops in the Chicago Av. Armory got the good news; Some of them will be home for Easter. Brigadier General Richard T. Dunn, commander of the 5,000 National Guard troops called to active duty after disturbances Thursday, said: "If everything remains quiet and no disturbances grow out of the peace parade Saturday we will begin phasing out troops by midnight tomorrow."
Date: April 5, 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.271
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Speech Reaction: Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman smashes a television set after watching President Nixon's news conference. The television was set up on the Washington Monument grounds and watched by demonstrators who arrived early for antiwar protest.
Unknown artist, American
Date: September 4, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.251
Promise Peace: Yippie Jerry Rubin, left, and his lieutenants announce plans for nonviolent activities during the July 10-14th Democratic National Convention. Other Youth International Party leaders in Miami Beach Tuesday were, from left: Patty Oldenburg, partly hidden Ed Sanders and Abbie Hoffman. Rubin points to a bird of peace sculpture.
Promise Peace: Yippie Jerry Rubin, left, and his lieutenants announce plans for nonviolent activities during the July 10-14th Democratic National Convention. Other Youth International Party leaders in Miami Beach Tuesday were, from left: Patty Oldenburg, partly hidden Ed Sanders and Abbie Hoffman. Rubin points to a bird of peace sculpture.
Unknown artist, American
Date: June 28, 1972
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.248
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car. At another time, an officer reminisced about wintry midnight tours, about the isolation he felt in the patrol car. Night after night he drove the same streets saw the same drunks, homeless ones, addicts, whom he had to move on, clearing the street. He had his anxieties. What, he wondered, would he do if one night they were gone? Whom would he talk to?, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.35
Hoffman with Protesters: Activist Abbie Hoffman is shown on the ground at the Bicks County Courthouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on Monday. They are dramatizing opposition to the Point Pleasant water diversion project
Hoffman with Protesters: Activist Abbie Hoffman is shown on the ground at the Bicks County Courthouse in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on Monday. They are dramatizing opposition to the Point Pleasant water diversion project
Date: January 17, 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print resin-coated
Object number: 2022.15.293
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
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Poet Saint-John Perse in Paris after receiving the Grand Prix des Lettres from French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux, Perse was also an eminent diplomat under his real name of Alexis Saint-Leger. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960, Hotel Cambon
Date: 1959
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.248
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
Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Yippie Reaction: Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader, uses an unusual handkerchief at today's antiwar demonstration. The cloth was described as being composed of stripes and stars.
Unknown artist, American
Date: May 9, 1970
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2024.21.250
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"
Bill Owens
Date: 1976 (printed later)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.93