Farm House in Alabama: Republican Congressmen Dave Martin of Nebraska and Gene Snyder of Kentucky released this photo today at a news conference in Washington held to report on their trip to Autauga County, Alabama. They said it is a view of a farm house on Alabama land owned by Mrs. Lyndon Johnson.

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

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:

• Autaugaville
• Civil Rights Movements
• Dave Martin
• Dilapidated
• Farmhouses
• Farms
• Gene Snyder
• Housing
• Injustice
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Lyndon Johnson
• Poverty
• Press Conferences
• Racial Discrimination

• Image Dimensions: 7 x 9 5/16 in. (17.78 x 23.65 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.64 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen