Makes New Move in War on Poverty: Sargent Shriver, Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity, gestures today at the start of a Washington news conference. He announced two federal grants totaling $6.3 million to sustain and broaden the war on poverty in Atlanta. Posing with him, from left, are: Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen; Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia; Senator Herman Talmadge, Democrat from Georgia, and Martin Luther King, Sr.

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:

• Atlanta
• Civil Rights Movements
• Grants
• Herman Talmadge
• Injustice
• Ivan Allen, Jr.
• Male Portraits
• Martin Luther King Family
• Martin Luther King, Sr.
• Office of Equal Opportunity (U.S.)
• Poverty
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination
• Richard Russell
• Sargent Shriver
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 9 5/16 in. (17.46 x 23.65 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/16 x 10 in. (20.48 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen