Jacob Philadelphia checks out President Obama's hair in May 2009

Object Details

Photograph by

Pete Souza, American, born 1954

Subject of

President Barack Obama, American, born 1961

Jacob Philadelphia, American, born 2004

Description

Photograph featuring President Barack Obama bent over allowing a child to touch his head. The child, Jacob Philadelphia is in the center of the image standing in front of the Presidential desk in the Oval Office. Obama stands slightly to the child's PL. The child raises his PR arm with his PR hand on the President's head. Obama wears a dark suit with his hands in his pockets. On the left side of the image are two (2) adults and one (1) child who stand and watch the interaction between the President and Philadelphia. The two adults, one woman and one man, stand in profile to the camera with their PR sides facing the viewer. The child stands in the foreground, slightly out of focus, also with his PR side facing the viewer. In the lower right corner yellow couch cushions can be seen. The image is bordered in white.

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

May 2009

Object number

2013.176

Type

digital prints

Medium

ink on photographic paper

Dimensions

H x W: 13 x 19 1/16 in. (33 x 48.4 cm)

Place captured

White House, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Photographs and Still Images

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Children

Hair

Identity

Local and regional

Photography

Politics

Race relations

Record ID

nmaahc_2013.176

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5bb327eab-7184-4124-b8b2-f20d105dc79d