A thirty year old woman of two children committed suicide

A thirty year old woman of two children committed suicide

Photograph

Leonard Freed

Maker
American, 1929–2006

A thirty year old woman of two children committed suicide

A thirty year old woman of two children committed suicide by jumping from the roof of her tenement building, clutched in her hand was a syringe of drugs. 9th Police Precinct, Homicide Task Force under Detective Sgt. Gerald McQueen (the real Kojak), New York City


1976
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 in. (23.5 × 15.8 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2018
2018.0123.0016
Inscriptions Blindstamped on recto, BR: © Leonard Freed
Signed in pencil on verso, BR: Leonard Freed
Inscribed in pencil on verso, TLC: LF-PW-174.02 \ 5000
Stamped in ink on verso, C: © Leonard Freed-Magnum
Inscribed in ink on verso, C: 78-9-31-1
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