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"

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© 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. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (15.9 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 7 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (20 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2017.22.35
Not on view
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Provenance 2017: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson.
Markings Stamps: "© Leonard Freed-Magnum" on verso at upper center in blue ink; "© Leonard Freed-Magnum" on verso at lower right corner in black ink; "VINTAGE PRINT" on verso at lower center in black ink; "MAGNUM Photo Library" on verso at lower center in black ink.

Labels: white adhesive label on verso at upper edge with tombstone information; white adhesive label on verso at upper edge with tombstone information.
Signature Signed "Leonard Freed" on verso at lower right corner in pencil.
Inscribed "CHILDREN 7" on verso at upper left corner in black ink; "5000" on verso at lower left corner [sideways] in pencil; "Book: 'POLICE WORK'" on verso at lower left corner in pencil; "1979 NEW YORK City, USA" on verso at lower left corner in pencil; "79-7-31-11A" on verso at center in pencil; "42381" on verso at lower center in pencil [crossed out]; "46339" on verso at lower center in pencil [circled]; "79-7-31-11A" on verso at lower center in pencil; "LF-PW-105-02" on verso at lower right corner in pencil.
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
In Full Battle Gear: as he arrives at a staging area at Dong Ha, South Vietnam, a United States Marine carries full battle gear plus a folding chair he scrounged somewhere. The Marine spent a comfortable night in the chair before climbing aboard a helicopter and flying into battle
Horst Faas
Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.126
United States Marine Corp boot camp: the climax of a hellish day for this man from the Motivation platoon. He has made it through the day with all its forced marches, exercises, and infiltration course, but is now being led (and orally humiliated at the same time) to a resident psychologist for examination
United States Marine Corp boot camp: the climax of a hellish day for this man from the Motivation platoon. He has made it through the day with all its forced marches, exercises, and infiltration course, but is now being led (and orally humiliated at the same time) to a resident psychologist for examination
Burk Uzzle
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.263
A Royal Laotian soldier, with painted face and leaf trimmed uniform, pointed to an object of suspicion while on a training patrol in the jungle near Vientiane. He was with troops being trained in jungle warfare by American instructors
A Royal Laotian soldier, with painted face and leaf trimmed uniform, pointed to an object of suspicion while on a training patrol in the jungle near Vientiane. He was with troops being trained in jungle warfare by American instructors
Unknown artist
Date: July 1962
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with applied pigment
Object number: 2023.12.185
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
© 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
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
A platoon leader, seriously wounded when he stepped on a mine, is carried by Vietnamese soldiers retreating from the mountain where they had attacked the Viet Cong unsuccessfully. Along the side of the road, other soldiers watch for snipers in the thick growth
Horst Faas
Date: September 9, 1962
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.129
There will be no end to commenting on the bullfight. In Cilleros, the matador was Francisco Garrido. His salary was 120 NF. He is twenty-four years of age, and hopes to tore one day in the arenas of Madrid (crowd carrying chairs), Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
There will be no end to commenting on the bullfight. In Cilleros, the matador was Francisco Garrido. His salary was 120 NF. He is twenty-four years of age, and hopes to tore one day in the arenas of Madrid (crowd carrying chairs), Spain, from the series La Corrida (The Bullfight)
Yvan Dalain
Date: 1962
Medium: Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.83
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
First Appearance: Wallace D. Muhammad, gestures as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago Sunday. It is his first public appearance since he succeeded his father a leader of the Black Muslims. He called for stronger family ties among Muslims and for supremacy of the mind. He also said that Black Muslims should respect whites who respect blacks.
Unknown artist
Date: June 16, 1975
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2022.15.267
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
The main street of Nha Trang, a coastal town 200 miles northeast of Saigon, after an American Canberra jet loaded with 250 pound bombs crashed, killing 12 South Vietnamese and injuring 71. The pilot set the automatic controls to guide the stricken plane out to sea before he baled out, but an inshore wind swept it back over land
Date: August, 1965
Medium: United Press International telephoto
Object number: 2022.15.291
The man was found lying in the street. He will be sent to a hospital. "I don't smoke, but I carry a pack with me. They're useful in such situations," said the officer, from the series "Police Work"
The man was found lying in the street. He will be sent to a hospital. "I don't smoke, but I carry a pack with me. They're useful in such situations," said the officer, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.22
King Andy I: How He Will Look and What He Will Do, from "Harper's Weekly"
King Andy I: How He Will Look and What He Will Do, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 3, 1866
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.83
Photograph by John Bentham.
James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons
Danny Lyon
Date: 1963, printed 2010
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2016.17.35