They Have the Floor: a group of pre-school age children from Mississippi with teachers and parents sit on the floor of the House Education Committee room in the Capitol in a plea for continuance of the Head Start Program in their state. The adults then went to the Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington DC.

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

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:

• Child Portraits
• Civil Rights Movements
• Head Start
• House Education Committee
• Injustice
• Mississippi
• Parent and Child
• Racial Discrimination
• Students
• Teachers
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 6 11/16 x 9 7/16 in. (16.99 x 23.97 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