Peter Adams

Photographer of history and the people that make it. Author, POTUS: Icons, Artifacts, and History that Shaped the American Presidency. *Coming Nov. 17, 2026*

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After years of work, I’m excited to share my new photo book, POTUS: Icons, Artifacts and History That Shaped the American Presidency, featuring artifacts from 14 presidential libraries—from FDR’s fedora to Obama’s Blackberry.

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@juliasteinberg Congrats.

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@TheAtlantic @ables_kelsey @ables_kelsey makes some very important points in this piece. It’s one of the reasons I began photographing the artifacts held at presidential libraries for my forthcoming photo book: https://t.co/PhIUEcZmJf

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@juliasteinberg How about a photo-driven narrative? https://t.co/HDxCOuYqPr

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@juliasteinberg @JHupfl @arenamagdotcom Agree. It’s always a discovery to photograph them.

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@DM_Rubenstein @NYHistory @AP Wow. That’s going to be incredible for someone.

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@OwenBrakes Why not? Isn’t that all private Stanford land?

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Exactly 223 years ago today, the Louisiana Purchase expanded presidential power and changed the nation forever. #POTUS #americanhistory https://t.co/y9gMudInwA

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@andrewdfeldman @cerebras Very cool. Congrats!

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@FutureJurvetson @FutureJurvetson please please make a photo book of your collection. I will gladly help you.

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@FutureJurvetson @TheRealBuzz Incredible story.

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Forty-five years ago today.
https://t.co/1X7SxldJQM

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@FutureJurvetson @DJSnM Very cool

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@DJSnM One of the reasons the forecast was so import was that if the Allies missed the June 5-6 window the tides wouldn’t line up again for another few weeks and the Germans would have figured out the decoys and landing sites.

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@BarackObama Hard things are hard. Thank you President @BarackObama .

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@macbohannon @KTmBoyle @HadrianInc Very cool. I’d love to photograph this.

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@jdevalk I hear you but I wonder if you’d make the same decision if there was truly a zero-admin page cache service you could plug into… something like varnish in the cloud.

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@andrewdfeldman @cerebras That sounds amazing. I’d love to photograph it.

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HUGE thank you to everyone who is pre-ordering my POTUS photo book right now at Amazon, B&N, and Bookshop..org! Links to order are here: https://t.co/PhIUEcZmJf

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@alexheard Honestly they are all good! I loved the Eisenhower which is less than 2h from the Truman. FDR is a must see as is the Bush 41 (end of the Cold War!). The Nixon and Reagan are also amazing if you are visiting SoCal. I have a photo book coming out If you don’t get to them all. 😉

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@jt_mooney @GlockfordFiles Totally. I wish more people understood this. The NARA run libraries generate a ton of civic and research value. I just photographed/wrote a whole book about it.