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Image Not Available for Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”
Image Not Available for Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”

Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mother’s lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. “These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven’t gotten to them yet,” said the fatherly office. “They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to real social workers.”

Artist Leonard Freed (American, 1929 - 2006)
CultureAmerican
Date1976
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Susan and Neal Yanofsky
Object number2022.43.1
On View
Not on view
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.
Andrew Jackson Riddle
August 17, 1864