This is an informal portrait of Omar F. Hawkins, 1890-1967, a Marysville, Kansas, photographer. He is shown holding a small camera. The Omar Hawkins photograph collection at the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka, Kansas, includes thousands of Hawkins' photographs of Marysville and the surrounding region from the early 1920s through the mid 1930s. The entire collection is currently being scanned and parts of the collection are available on Kansas Memory as unit 216927.