Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins at a record console
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Hawkins, Bill, American, 1909 - 1975
- Date
- 1948-1958
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 7 × 5 1/8 in. (17.8 × 13 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins. Hawkins is depicted standing behind a console with a turntable resting on the surface. He is looking down at a long-playing record he is holding with both hands. He is wearing high waisted, medium-toned trousers, a white collared shirt, and a polka dot bow tie. Hawkins has a small mustache and his hair is smoothed back. The acoustic wall panel behind Hawkins is white and has small perforations. The photograph has a thin white border and a portrait orientation. The back of the photograph is plain white with handwritten black text in the top right corner that reads [Photo BY FORREST Dito[s?]].
- Place captured
- Cleveland, Cayuhoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Topic
- Music
- Photography
- Radio
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of W. Allen Taylor, son of "Walkin' Talkin' Bill Hawkins," The First Black Disc Jockey of Cleveland, Ohio
- Object number
- 2018.91.2.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown – Restrictions Possible
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