Image / [Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins]

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Title: [Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins]
Creator: Hodson, Burton M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2016-2487.
Bust-length portrait, seated in legislative chamber.
Also have negative: no. 20,463.
Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1907 to Nyanza and Hattie Hawkins (Nyanza had emigrated from his native England). Served in the State Assembly from 1935 to 1963, elected to U.S. Congress where served from 1963 to 1991.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 7 x 4 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001566276CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Hawkins, Augustus F.--Portraits
British Americans--Portraits
California. Legislature. Assembly--Photographs
United States. Congress. House--Photographs
California Legislative Black Caucus--Photographs
African American legislators--California--Portraits
African American men--California--Portraits
Legislators--California
Sacramento (Calif.)--Biography--Portraits
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Sacramento (Calif.)

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