Mrs. Peabody Smiles From Police Car: Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, mother of the governor of Massachusetts, smiles from the police car that took her to St. Johns County Jail in St. Augustine, Florida. She was arrested with a mixed group attempting to integrate a motel dining room. The man with Mrs. Peabody is unidentified; it is not known if he was also arrested.

On recto: typewritten title and date.

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:

• Arrest
• Demonstrations
• Desegregation
• Female Portraits
• Governors
• Massachusetts
• Mrs. Malcolm Peabody
• Police
• Restaurants
• Saint Augustine
• St. Johns County Jail

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/16 x 5 9/16 in. (17.94 x 14.13 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (21.59 x 16.51 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen