Attention from the President: President Johnson, his brow furrowed, pays close attention today to two members of a group of Civil Rights leaders in a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House. Talking with the President are A. Phillip Randolph, right, Vice President of the AFL-CIO, and Roy Wilkins, Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• A. Philip Randolph
• AFL-CIO
• Cabinet Room
• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Meetings
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Racial Discrimination
• Roy Wilkins

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 9 13/16 in. (18.1 x 24.92 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.48 x 25.24 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen