Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Public Enemy
September 1988; printed 1990s
Smithsonian NMAAHC collection
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 color digital print photograph of Public Enemy. The photograph features, from left to right, S1W, Professor Griff, Terminator X, and Chuck D. S1W are dressed in black fatigues and black berets, and stand in front of a wall with graffiti that reads: [Don't Beleeve (sic) The Hype]. Professor Griff, wearing black fatigues and a red beret, and Terminator X, wearing a Boston Celtics sweat suit, stand in front of S1W. Chuck D stands in the foreground of the photograph wearing an Oakland Raiders jacket. The back of the photograph has a Jack Mitchell stamp with the number [5875].
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Catalog reference: 2016.77.10
