Photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins with a WHK microphone

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A black-and-white photograph of Disc Jockey Bill “Hawk” Hawkins. Hawkins is depicted from the waist up, holding a small, rectangular piece of white paper in proper right hand at chest level, and gesturing with his proper left hand. He is wearing a medium-toned, double breasted suit, a white collared shirt, a dark tie, and he has a white pocket square in his left breast pocket. There is a microphone stand in front of him. At the top of the microphone is a rounded microphone flag with the radio station call sign, [WHK], visible. In the background is a two-tone wall with a woven wallpaper pattern on the top half and a dark painted bottom half. A square of fabric hangs over his proper right shoulder. The photograph has a portrait orientation. The back of the photograph is white and plain.

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