Photograph of Bill Hawkins in a Pullman porter uniform with four men

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A black-and-white photograph of Bill Hawkins in a Pullman porter uniform with four unidentified men. The group is depicted standing in front of two linked train cars. Two of the men, including Hawkins, are wearing Pullman porter uniforms with white shirts, dark-toned trousers, dark-toned bowties, and dark-toned porters’ caps with metal tags attached to the front above the bills of the caps. Hawkins stands between the two men in conductor uniforms on the left. The conductor on the right of Hawkins stands at center on a foot stool. He is depicted in three-quarters profile, looking towards the right, with his proper right hand raised in a wave. The conductors are wearing dark uniforms with matching blazers, vests, and trousers as well as white collared shirts and dark-toned conductors’ caps with metal tags attached to the front above the bills of the caps. The other Pullman porter stands to the right of the center conductors.

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