Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with Dinah Washington

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A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with Dinah Washington taken from outside the Bill Hawkins’ Record Studio. A small crowd of onlookers are peering inside the DJ booth windows from the sidewalk. The crowd of mostly teenagers and children are depicted on the right side of the photograph. Most of the onlookers are shown in profile or with their backs to the viewer. At the back of the crowd, in the right foreground, is a boy in a white tee shirt, dark trousers, and medium-toned baseball cap with a Schwinn bicycle. There is a crumpled sheet of newspaper laying on the sidewalk in next to his front tire. Standing inside the DJ booth windows is Hawkins and Washington. Hawkins stands on the right and is speaking into a silver tone microphone.

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