Photograph of DJ Kool Herc with friends at T-Connection: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a color Polaroid depicting DJ Kool Herc and 21 friends posed while at T-Connection, a nightclub in the Bronx. Kool Herc is at the center of the image, wearing a black hat with sunglasses on it and someone sitting on his lap. Most people are sitting on the floor or a chair, with a few people in the background standing.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: early 1980s
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
• Subject of: T-Connection, American
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: group portraits
• Type: instant camera photographs
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 2 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (7.3 × 9.8 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 3 1/4 × 4 1/8 in. (8.3 × 10.5 cm)
• Place captured: Bronx, New York City, Bronx County, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: DJs (Musicians)
• Topic: Hip-hop (Music)
• Topic: Nightlife
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2022.73.11
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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