- Owned by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
- T-Connection, American
- Date
- 1980
- Medium
- dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in. (9.8 × 7.3 cm)
- H x W (sheet): 4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (10.5 × 8.3 cm)
- Description
- This is a color Polaroid depicting DJ Kool Herc posing with his sound system at the T-Connection, a nightclub. DJ Kool Herc is captured at full-length, leaning against the sound system he put together with his arms crossed. He is wearing a blue color shirt with printed-on white building graphic, dark blue jeans, black shoes, square-shaped black sunglasses, a bolo tie, and a black bet with a gold color steer cow/bull horn belt buckle. The image is printed on semi-gloss double photographic paper.
- Place captured
- Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Type
- instant camera photographs
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2022.73.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown – Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




