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
Artist/Maker
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"
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
© 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
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
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
The Test of Force in Poland: as foreseen, the strike movement which affected public transportation in Warsaw (a movement which received widespread support from the population and was backed by solidarity) finished at noon, on August 5. At that time, talks began between the authorities and the strikers touching on the increase in prices and food rationing
Michel Philippot
Date: August 5,1981
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Object number: 2022.15.122
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
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."
Unknown artist
Date: April 5, 1969
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.271
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
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: 1954
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.198
The Arrest of 'Boss' Tweed: Another Good Joke, from "Harper's Weekly"
The Arrest of 'Boss' Tweed: Another Good Joke, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 18, 1871
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.156
Ayant eu la fâcheuse idée d’aller faire la sieste au bord de l’eau (Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a nap at the water’s edge), no. 9 from the series "Croquis D'ete" ("Summer Sketch")
Ayant eu la fâcheuse idée d’aller faire la sieste au bord de l’eau (Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a nap at the water’s edge), no. 9 from the series "Croquis D'ete" ("Summer Sketch")
Honoré Daumier
Date: published August 25, 1856
Medium: Lithograph on newsprint
Object number: 1984.13
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Inmate outside warden’s office, about to be transferred by local authorities, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.44
Amphitheatre Flavius, Rome, MDCCCLXXV.--Caesar Having Things Rendered Unto Him, from "Harper's Weekly"
Amphitheatre Flavius, Rome, MDCCCLXXV.--Caesar Having Things Rendered Unto Him, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published January 16, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.268