In a cheap Greenwich Village hotel, a girl is found dead of an overdose

In a cheap Greenwich Village hotel, a girl is found dead of an overdose

Photograph

Leonard Freed

Maker
American, 1929–2006

In a cheap Greenwich Village hotel, a girl is found dead of an overdose

In a cheap Greenwich Village hotel, a girl is found dead of an overdose. The note may indicate suicide, but could have been left by her murderer, New York City


1972
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2018
Inscriptions Signed in pencil on verso, BC: Leonard Freed
Printed on applied label on verso, TR: Law Enforcement \ PEOPLE DEAD & INJURED \ (VICTIMS)
Stamped in ink on verso, TR: Photograph By \ Leonard Freed \ © MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC. \ 15 West 46th Street, N.Y.C. 10026 \ 75-19 [inscribed in ink:]-58/7A
Stamped in ink on verso, C: MAGNUM \ PHOTO LIBRARY [illegible] \ NEW YORK \ LOG REF. \ TO BE RETURNED
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: [strikethrough] 70105
Inscribed in pencil on verso, C: [upside down] 72-19 18/7A \ [strikethrough] 23081 \ [strikethrough] 20153 \ [strikethrough] 22451 \ 26813
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: Book: "Police work"
Stamped in ink on verso, BC: VINTAGE PRINT
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BL: 75-19-58-7A
Printed on applied label on verso, BLC: cons#90270 \ .....kkm.....
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: 5000 1972 NEW YORK CITY. USA
Inscribed in ink on verso, BC: 72060
Stamped in ink on verso, BC: © Leonard Freed-Magnum
Inscribed in red pencil on verso, BRC: Reiss MSP. \ 14-60
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BRC: LF-PW-183.01
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