Black Graduate: Hamilton Earl Holmes, one of the first black students to attend the University of Georgia six years ago, examines a hypodermic needle at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Holmes will soon become the first black to graduate from Emory University Medical School.

Hamilton E. Holmes (July 8, 1941 – October 26, 1995) was an American orthopedic physician. He and Charlayne Hunter-Gault were the first two black students admitted to the University of Georgia. Additionally, Holmes was the first black student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine, where he earned his M.D. in 1967. Holmes later became a professor of orthopedics and associate dean at the school.

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

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:

• Atlanta
• Broken barriers
• Civil Rights Movements
• Emory University
• Grady Memorial Hospital
• Hamilton Holmes
• Injustice
• Physicians
• Racial Discrimination
• University of Georgia

• Image Dimensions: 8 5/16 x 5 11/16 in. (21.11 x 14.45 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 7 15/16 in. (27.62 x 20.16 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen