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

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a color Polaroid depicting DJ Kool Herc posing with his sound system at the T-Connection, a nightclub. DJ Kool Herc is captured at full-length, leaning against the sound system he put together with his arms crossed. He is wearing a blue color shirt with printed-on white building graphic, dark blue jeans, black shoes, square-shaped black sunglasses, a bolo tie, and a black bet with a gold color steer cow/bull horn belt buckle. The image is printed on semi-gloss double photographic paper.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1980
• Owned by: Unidentified
• Subject of: DJ Kool Herc, Jamaican American, born 1955
• Subject of: T-Connection, American
• Type: instant camera photographs
• Type: portraits
• Medium: dye and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (image): 3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in. (9.8 × 7.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (sheet): 4 1/8 × 3 1/4 in. (10.5 × 8.3 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
• Topic: Technology
• Object number: 2022.73.2
• 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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