- Accession Number:
- 2016.8.12
- Description:
- BW, Stevie Wonder, his mother Lula Hardaway, and Junious Griffin meet President Richard Nixon, May 1969, in the White House Rose Garden, receiving the Distinguished Service Award from the President's Committee on Employment of Handicapped People; Nixon is at left in a suit, his face and body turned slightly away from the viewer and facing right, a group of other officials stand behind him; Hardaway faces the camera, smiling, in a light suit and gloves; Wonder is shaking the President's hand, smiling, wearing dark sunglasses, a dark suit, shirt and tie; Griffin is at right faced three quarters away from the camera, with a short full beard, a dark striped suit, and his hands behind him.
- Medium:
- Photographic Paper
- Date:
- 1969
- History/Provenance:
- President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped was created by President Truman in 1945.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ted Hull, 2016.8
- Subjects:
- Awards Blind persons Disabled persons Presidents
