2014.459: A police officer stationed in a public school tries to spot drug sales to students. “In this school the regular guards are useless,” a teacher said. “With us it’s real police with real guns stationed in the halls. I’m not a teacher, I’m a warden
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2014.459
- People
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Leonard Freed, American (Brooklyn, New York 1929 - 2006 Garrison, New York)
- Title
- A police officer stationed in a public school tries to spot drug sales to students. “In this school the regular guards are useless,” a teacher said. “With us it’s real police with real guns stationed in the halls. I’m not a teacher, I’m a warden
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1976
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/349564
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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16.3 x 24 cm (6 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, black ink: For Police work/Police assigned to city school checks from top of school for drug pushers in streets/1972
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Private collection, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2014.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Copyright
- © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2014.459
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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