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Barack Obama Sr., 1960s. University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. 

Sarah Obama, Kenya, 2008. Getty Images.

Barack and Michelle Obama, ca. 1990s.. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. S. Ann Dunham papers.

President Barack Obama with daughter Malia and Sasha at the White House, 2009. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, together with their daughters, during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Getty Images.

President Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett, 2011. National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.

Michelle Obama and Marian Robinson (black and white image). © Miller Mobley.

Marian and Fraser Robinson III, together with their children Craig and Michelle. Alamy.

Czerny Brasuell. Courtesy of Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College.

Barack and Michelle Obama on campaign bus, 2008. © Callie Shell. 

Michelle Obama with daughters Malia and Sasha in Venice, Italy, 2015.  National Archives, Obama Presidential Library.

All other photographs courtesy of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Maya Soetoro.