Signs Of The Time At Fayette: White merchants have added a new approach to advertising for trade: they point out that they are under a Civil Rights boycott by the NAACP. Top photo: one of several banners stretched across a highway entrance asking for passersby to stop and trade. Bottom photo: Charlie Montgomery, Jr., one of Fayette's leading merchants, points to a boycott sign he painted on one of his stores, hoping to boost business from white buyers, Fayette, Mississippi.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: date stamp and newspaper caption with date stamp affixed.

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:

• Advertisements
• Banners
• Boycotts
• Charlie Montgomery, Jr.
• Civil Rights Movements
• Fayette
• Highways
• Injustice
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Racial Discrimination
• Segregationists

• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/16 in. (25.4 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Martin, Jack
• Image Dimensions: 9 9/16 x 6 11/16 in. (24.29 x 16.99 cm) Measured by Martin, Jack