The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC

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The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 × 9 in. (15.5 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 7 × 9 3/8 in. (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.152
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Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100714- / 168”
Verso, upper center (typed, blue ink): “`New York’s 'Ninth Precinct Police Station' the home of Kojak. March 79 / The 9th Precinct runs from 14th Street down Houston and Broadway to the East River, the area is an ugly and terrifying place which is the home of / the terrorists of the Puerto Rican F.A.L.N., the Black Liberation Army, / and HQ of NY’s Hell’s Angels. It is the worst block in the city, with its / stinking tenements with no heat, burnt out buildings, drunken derelicts / and junkies, muggers and rapists. You would not want to be in the 9th Pre- / cinct after dark if you could help it. To TV viewers around the world, / Kojak has brought them the realities of crime in the big cities, also / this police station where Kojak is filmed. Psycho stabbers roam the / dark streets and since 1967 over 3,000 policemen have been killed in / America in the performance of their duties, and not one perpetrator has / gone to the electric chair. In NY alone there are over 2,000 homicides / a year and some cops feel it’s time to return to vigilantes and / frontier justice. / (NY Times Magazine 21 January 1979) -Photos Leonard Freed/MAGNUM”
Verso, center right (stamp, black ink): “TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS / 20 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 PARIS / EPREUVE á RENDRE / No / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRINT TO BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower left (typed, blue ink): “Photo.17.”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78.9.33/15) the 9th Precinct Office investigation unit with Lieutenant / Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his tv series.”
Published References Illustrated: Leonard Freed: Police Work, pl. 83
Signature Verso, lower left (pencil): “leonard freed”
Inscribed Verso, upper right corner (black marker): "NYC 2.6.1"
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-083.04"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "4000-"
Verso, lower left (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY. / .USA. "
Inmate inside holding cell, 9th police precinct, NYC
Inmate inside holding cell, 9th police precinct, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.158
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.172
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a prisoner showing in his wallet the portrait of the former Superintendent O. E. Bishop, Cummins, Arkansas
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a prisoner showing in his wallet the portrait of the former Superintendent O. E. Bishop, Cummins, Arkansas
Jean-Pierre Laffont
Date: February 3, 1968
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.239
It was impossible to tell what had happened. Two women were lying, screaming, on the ground. The street was full of excited people. When the dust cleared we found that a man had been shot. His attacker had escaped in the confusion, NYC
It was impossible to tell what had happened. Two women were lying, screaming, on the ground. The street was full of excited people. When the dust cleared we found that a man had been shot. His attacker had escaped in the confusion, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.151
Police check out reported crooks in office building at night, New York City
Police check out reported crooks in office building at night, New York City
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.153
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
The “shooting gallery” raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.39
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.43
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. Dr. Cattete Pinheiro, Brazilian Minister of Health, at the window of his office.
Builders and doctors in Brasilia: Brasilia, the most modern capital city in the world has 65,000 inhabitants in 1959. Today, its population totals 250,000. In three years this figure will increase to 500,000. Since the first foundations were laid, builders and doctors worked closely together, first of all to see to it that the 60,000 workers who took part in building the new city stayed in good health, then to prevent the town from being invaded by the diseases of bush and forest. Immigrants' health is checked systematically on the road into Brasilia, while specialists study the flora and fauna of the environment in order to discover possible sources of dangerous diseases. Dr. Cattete Pinheiro, Brazilian Minister of Health, at the window of his office.
Paul Almasy
Date: c. 1960
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.175
© 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
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.21
Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
Off-Duty: Chicago policeman William Sherrod (right) wore his service revolver as he helped a friend, the Reverend Edward Dixon, cut grass in front of his home in a white neighborhood. Mr. Dixon, a Cook County Hospital chaplain, recently purchased the house.
Date: August 1963
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.266
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a young white prisoner, Cummins, Arkansas
Cummins unit of Arkansas State Penitentiary. The corruption scandal of the historical penitentiary inspired the 1980 film Brubaker, which chronicled the warden's inside investigation into the corrupt southern prison system. The prison raise their own pigs. Close up of a young white prisoner, Cummins, Arkansas
Jean-Pierre Laffont
Date: February 3, 1968
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.240