Governor Visits Bombing Site: Alabama Governor George Wallace talks to police at the bombing scene at the Birmingham home of a black man, T. L. Crowell. Wallace said this was a "grave and dastardly act, and every effort will be made to catch the bomber."

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

• Bombings
• Civil Rights Movements
• Debris
• George Wallace
• Hate
• Houses
• Injustice
• Male Portraits
• Police
• Racial Discrimination
• T. L. Crowell

• Image Dimensions: 6 9/16 x 9 1/16 in. (16.67 x 23.02 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen