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Photograph of Big Daddy Kane, NYC, 1991

1991

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color photograph of Big Daddy Kane. He is wearing a grey hoodie with the hood up and a black leather jacket. He has a goatee and his hands are folded in front of him. They are out of focus. The background is black. There is a thin black line along the bottom and the proper left side. There is a white border around the image, which is thinnest on the two sides, thicker on the top, and thickest on the top and bottom. The back of the photograph has light grey text repeated in diagonal lines. There are tears on the top and on the sides from where tape used to be. There is an inscription by Bill Adler on the top, handwritten in blue ink.

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.70

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