Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a WSRS microphone
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Hawkins, Bill, American, 1909 - 1975
- WSRS, American, founded 1947
- Date
- 1948-1958
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 5 × 4 1/16 in. (12.7 × 10.3 cm)
- Description
- A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins. Hawkins is depicted holding a microphone mounted on a stand. He is facing the viewer and smiling. He is holding the microphone stand with his proper right hand and leaning towards the microphone, which is slightly tilted. His proper left hand is raised to shoulder height and his thumb, index finger, and middle finger are slightly extended. He is wearing a medium-toned suit, white collared shirt, a polka dot bow tie, and has a white pocket square in his left breast pocket. At the top of the microphone is a rounded microphone flag with the radio station call sign, [WSRS], visible. The acoustic wall panel behind Hawkins is white and has three bands of small perforations along the top half. The photograph has a white border and a portrait orientation. The back of the photograph is white and plain with a small, red ink [+] printed in the bottom right corner.
- Place captured
- Cleveland, Cayuhoga County, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- 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
- 2018.91.2.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown – Restrictions Possible
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