Digital image of John F. Kennedy campaigning in a crowd of people: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white image of John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign with a crowd of people outside of a BBQ restaurant.

Kennedy is pictured smiling and is standing in the center of the crowd. Many of the men are wearing hats. There is a marching band in the background with young men and women playing trumpets, tubas, and other instruments. The crowd is in front of a small brick building with signs reading [SNOOTS BAR-B-Q] in the windows and neon signs for BAR-B-Q along the roof line along with a sign for Coca-Cola. There is also a sign on top of the building, but only the bottom of the sign is visible; it reads [CHICKEN & STEAKS].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960
• Photograph by: Aaron Stanley Tretick, American, 1921 - 1999
• Subject of: President John F. Kennedy, American, 1917 - 1963
• Type: digital images
• Type: digital media - born analog
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: H x W: 1102 pixels × 1668 pixels
• Dimensions: File size: 5.29 MB
• Place captured: United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Communities
• Topic: Foodways
• Topic: Marching bands (Music)
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2016.157.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kitty Kelley and the Estate of Stanley Tretick
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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