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u.r. along edge [printed on label]: MAGNUM PHOTOS / [barcode] / PA-OR E00515531

u.r. along edge in blue ink: U.S.A. 2.8.3

u.l. to c.r. [typed]: [underlined] New York's "Ninth Precinct Police Station" the home of Kojak. March 79 #79-29 [underlined] / 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 Precinct 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 / policestation [sic.] is 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 for a return to / vigilantes and frontier justice. / (NY Times Magazine 21 January 1979) Photos by Leonard Freed/MAGNUM.

c.r. in graphite: [underlined] 1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA.

c.l. to l.l.: [text crossed out with blue ink] [5 blue horizontal lines]

c.r. stamped in black ink: [inside rectangular box] PRINT / MUST BE / RETURNED

c.r. stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT

l.l. in blue ink [crossed out in blue marker]: [vertically] NYC 15

l.l. stamped in blue ink: [upside down] TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS / 5, PASSAGE PIVER 75011 PARIS / EPREUVE A RENDRE / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRINT TO BE RETURNED

l.l. to l.r. [typed]: Photo. 19. (78.9.49/15) a 9th Precinct policeman points his gun at a man fleeing / down the hallway of a tenement building.

l.r. stamped in black ink[inside rectangular box]: TIRAGE ARC[missing] M[missing] / 20, rue des Grands Augustíns, 75006, P[missing]IS / EPREUVE à RENDRE / N° / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRIN[missing] TO BE RETURNED

l.c.signed in graphite: Leonard Freed

l.c. stamped in black ink: ©Leonard Freed-Magnum

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Brigitte Freed

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed