Receive Honorary Degrees: Receiving honorary degrees at the 78th Commencement exercises of Springfield College Sunday are (left to right) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of Atlanta, principal speaker, Doctor of Divinity; Dr. Carl David Smith, Trustee of Springfield College, Doctor of Humanics; P. Mathew Joseph of Lakshimibai College, Gwalior Shaktinager, India, Doctor of Humanics; Mary Elizabeth Switzer, Commissioner of the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Doctor of Humanics; and Glenn A. Olds, President of Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968.

Associated Press ID # 6406140118

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

• Carl David Smith
• Civil Rights Movements
• Glenn A. Olds
• Graduations
• Gwalior Shaktinager
• Honorary degrees
• Injustice
• Martin Luther King Family
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Mary Elizabeth Switzer
• P. Mathew Joseph
• Racial Discrimination
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Springfield
• Springfield College

• Image Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 6 11/16 in. (24.13 x 16.99 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin