Still Hopeful: Governor Frank Clement of Tennessee, who cancelled plans to return to Nashville earlier today, relaxes in his hotel room for a moment. He said he was still hopeful of a settlement being reached in the Little Rock integration crisis. Clement is a member of the Southern Governors' Committee. It met with President Eisenhower yesterday regarding a possible compromise on the situation at Little Rock. Clement suggested a possible new face-to-face meeting between Eisenhower and Governor Orval Faubus in the event the Southern governors could not find a solution for the impasse, Washington DC.

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
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Education
• Frank Clement
• Hotels
• Injustice
• Little Rock
• Little Rock Central High School
• Male Portraits
• Orval Faubus
• Racial Discrimination
• Southern Governors' Committee
• Tennessee
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (23.81 x 17.15 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.64 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen