President Kennedy Greets Peace Corps Volunteers, c. 1962 by Abbie Rowe

President Kennedy Greets Peace Corps Volunteers, c. 1962, by Abbie Rowe captures President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with a crowd of young Peace Corps volunteers and White House visitors on the South Lawn, a moment of direct, informal engagement between the president and the idealistic Americans answering his call to service. Rowe, official White House photographer during the Kennedy administration and previously a National Park Service photographer, was known for documenting the intimate, unscripted moments of presidential life that formal portraiture rarely captured.

Artist: Abbie Rowe (1905–1967). Date: 1962.

President Kennedy Greets Peace Corps Volunteers. Historic American Political Photography Canvas Print.