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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins inside a pharmacy

1948-1958

Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 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 black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with an unidentified woman and two unidentified men inside a pharmacy. A man and woman stand at the center of the photograph holding two identical, novelty sized bottles of P.O.C. Pilsner Beer. They are flanked on the left by an unidentified man, and on the right by Bill Hawkins. The man at the center is wearing a white pharmacist’s smock with medium-toned trousers. He is holding one of the novelty sized P.O.C. bottles in front of him, cradling the bottle’s shoulder in his proper right hand and supporting the bottom of the bottle with his proper left hand. The woman next to him is wearing a dark dress with white polka dots. She is holding the other novelty sized P.O.C.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2018.91.2.13

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