Injecting drug addict on stretcher at Bellevue Hospital, NYC

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Injecting drug addict on stretcher at Bellevue Hospital, NYC
Injecting drug addict on stretcher at Bellevue Hospital, NYC
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1972
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 15/16 × 9 1/16 in. (15.1 × 23 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.166
Not on view
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Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100714- / 003”
Verso, upper right (blue circular sticker): no text
Verso, upper center (stamp, red ink): “TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS / 20 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 PARIS / EPREUVE à RENDRE / N˚ / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRINT TO BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower right center (stamp, blue ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Inscribed Verso, upper right corner (black and blue marker): [all crossed out] “69.A / USA / A7.51 / A5”
Verso, upper right (black marker): “NYC”
Verso, upper right (blue marker): “2.6.1”
Verso, lower right center (blue ink): “72-19-22/11A”
Verso, lower left (pencil): “1972”
Verso, lower left (red marker): “CRimE iN / NEW YORK City: drug addict at Bellevue / hospital.” [sic]
Verso, lower right (pencil): “USA.”
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): [sideways] "LFPW-314.1"
Verso, center left edge (pencil): [sideways] "4500"
Police checking a drug addict in Times Square, NYC
Police checking a drug addict in Times Square, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.168
Police officer crouching in front of door in hallway during a night raid on drug pushers, NYC
Police officer crouching in front of door in hallway during a night raid on drug pushers, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.159
Police with drug dealer, NYC
Police with drug dealer, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.165
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
RAAF Helicopter Ambulances in Vietnam Fighting: Among the many operational tasks performed by the versatile RAAF Iroquois helicopters of No. 9 Squadron in Vietnam, a new one-- aerial ambulance for wounded Viet Cong prisoners-- has been added. They were called on to fly two prisoners-- one a stretcher case who needed medical treatment in flight and the other blind-folded walking wounded case-- from the battle area to hospital at Vung Tau. Since their arrival in Vietnam with the Australian Task Force in June, the RAAF Iroquois have been used for carrying troops and wounded, dropping ammunition to hard pressed Australian troops, dropping leaflets and carrying out aerial reconnaissance patrols...
Date: September 6, 1965
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.288
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
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Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.39
© 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 "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
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
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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
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
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
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
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.152