Photograph of Earl Bostic signing autographs inside Bill Hawkins’ Record Studio

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A black-and-white photograph of Earl Bostic signing autographs for a large group of people inside Bill Hawkins’ Record Studio. Bostic and the others are crowded around a long, curving countertop and a record carousel. The group includes men, women, a group of young girls. The people at the front of the crowd are leaning on the countertop. At the center is Bostic, standing behind a stack of long-playing (LP) records in sleeves. Bostic is wearing a button-down shirt with a pineapple pattern and suspenders. He is smiling and looking down at a record in his proper right hand. He is also holding a pen in the same hand. A round record carousel sitting on a round wooden table dominates the foreground of the photograph. It has white LP sleeves fanned out in a circle around the center column with vinyl records filling each sleeve.

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