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Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with Herbert “Hot Sauce” Williams

April 1949

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 Herbert “Hot Sauce” Williams. Williams are Hawkins depicted in profile, seated behind a DJ console, facing each other. Williams is seated on the left with his proper left elbow is resting on console and his other arm rests in his lap. He is wearing a tall, white, paper chef hat, medium-toned trousers, and a white short sleeve, collared shirt. Hawkins, seated on the right, is reading from a piece of paper he holds in his proper left hand and gesturing with his proper right hand. Hawkins is wearing a medium-toned suit, white collared shirt, a dark patterned bow tie, and has a white pocket square in his left breast pocket. Behind the two men is a DJ console with various dials, nobs, button, and a white gauge.

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Catalog reference: 2018.91.2.30

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