Photograph of DJ Kool Herc with sound system at T-Connection

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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.

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