Photographs of James Earl Jones

This review contains photos of James Earl Jones.

There are photographs from An Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word in the East Room on May 12, 2009; President Obama greeting James Earl Jones and Cecilia Jones in the Blue Room during a reception for the Ford’s Theatre Society and Lincoln Medal recipients, on June 22, 2014; and the Gala for the Re-Opening of Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC on February 11, 2009.

108 assets

  • Photographs

The Executive Office of the President (EOP) instance of the Electronic Records Archive (ERA) contains electronic records created or received by Obama administration staff. These records are stored in Search and Access Sets (SAS) that represent their originating computer program, such as the White House Photo System.

The photographs are a subseries of a larger series, which includes all photographs taken by White House photographers during the Obama administration.  This subseries is arranged chronologically by the photo identifier (P number), which is formatted as PMMDDYYXX-####:

  • P (for Presidential photographs)
  • MMDDYY (Date of image capture)
  • XX (Photographer’s initials)
  • [dash]
  • Frame number

Electronic Records

     James Earl Jones contains 108 photographs, of which 54 are released in full and 54 are withheld in full.

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Barack Obama Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 USC 2201) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Official records of Barack Obama’s presidency are housed at the Barack Obama Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

Staff Archivists, 2024.