Picket Rockefeller's Office in New York's School Boycott: Sign-carrying pickets walk in front of the New York City office of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller demanding total integration in the city's school system. Rockefeller's office said the Governor was in Albany. The demonstration was part of a city-wide, one-day boycott of the city's school system, the nation's largest.

Associated Press ID #6402030529

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript title, date and newspaper 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:

• Civil Rights Movements
• Desegregation
• Education
• Education
• Injustice
• Nelson Rockefeller
• New York City
• Offices
• Picketing
• Protesters
• Racial Discrimination
• School boycotts

• Image Dimensions: 6 5/8 x 9 in. (16.83 x 22.86 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.64 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin