Under the Blossoms: This unusual picture of President Johnson was taken today as he addressed a church group in the blossom-filled Rose Garden outside his White House office. Under flowering magnolia trees, Johnson told a Christian Leadership Seminar group, sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, that "No group of Christians has more responsibility in Civil Rights than the Southern Baptists."

On recto: typewritten title and date. On verso: Associated Press stamp and 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:

• Christianity
• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Lyndon Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Racial Discrimination
• Rose Garden
• Seminars
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Southern Baptists
• Speeches
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (23.81 x 17.46 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin