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Handmade Christmas wreath made of colorful felt materials by Christine Bezanson from British Columbia. It is decorated with several hand-sewn holiday shapes including hollies, presents, ornaments and Christmas figurines. Four ceramic ornaments are contained in the center of the piece, with 26 names listed in total. A green awareness ribbon hangs from the bottom of the wreath.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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A piece of the original granite from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial received from Harry E. Johnson, the President and CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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Charcoal drawing of President Obama and Bo in a car looking out the window.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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Nail gifted to President Obama by the descendants of Paul Jennings, James Madison’s enslaved manservant, when they visited the White House. The inscription reads, “Nail forged by slaves at Montpelier, James Madison's Virginia plantation, resting on cedar-of-Lebanon and encased in walnut, both woods from trees that grew at Montpelier in Paul Jennings' day.”
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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In 2017, President Obama received this original Game of Thrones storyboard scene from William Simpson, the lead Storyboard Artist for the show. Storyboards are comic strip visual references of a director's initial vision for a TV series. This storyboard includes five pencil on paper sketches from Season 1, Episode 6. The sketches show Tyrion Lannister attempting to survive his imprisonment in the Skycell dungeons at the Eyrie.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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The President and First Lady received these uniquely sculpted busts from artist John Quates of Inkster, MI, late in the administration. The bust of First Lady Michelle Obama is made with orange colored sand, plastic grapes, and the natural fruit peels of various colors mounted on a wood base decorated with a variety of plastic fruits and leaves.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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The President and First Lady received these uniquely sculpted busts from artist John Quates of Inkster, MI, late in the administration. The bust of President Obama is made from a basketball with painted plaster features and shaved tennis ball fibers mounted on a mosaic tile platform with an engraved name plate that reads: “M.V.P. BARACK OBAMA MOST VALUABLE PRESIDENT.”
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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A book entitled "Why Every Fly Counts: A Documentation about the Value and Endangerment of Insects" was gifted to President Obama by the author, Dr. Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus, in response to a fly interrupting a 2016 MSNBC interview. The author was inspired by the President's casual "solution" to the fly.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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A canvas print of the painting, entitled "He Who," made by internationally renowned visual artist Bunky Echo-Hawk. He created the artwork live during an event at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Echo-Hawk was inspired to create the piece after hearing then-candidate Obama speak during a campaign visit to Crow Agency, Montana, in May 2008. Obama was given the honorary Crow name of "He Who Helps Many Throughout The Land" when he was adopted as an honorary member of the Crow Nation by the Black Eagle family.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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Print of an acrylic on canvas painting of the President and First lady in a 1961 Corvette overlooking Bellows Beach with Bo and Sunny playing on the beach.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts