Demonstrators Splashed with Paint: bags containing paint splash in the midst of sit-down demonstrators in the street outside the old Court of Appeals Building. The demonstration was in protest to hearings being held by House Committee on Un-American Activities probing communism, Chicago.

Associated Press ID #6505270196

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

• Chicago
• Civil Rights Movements
• Court of Appeals
• House Committee on Un-American Activities
• Injustice
• Protesters
• Racial Discrimination
• Sit-ins
• Street Scenes
• Vandalism

• Image Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (17.46 x 23.97 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (20.48 x 25.24 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen