Side By Side: Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Eugene McCarthy, both candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, stand side by side at yesterday's Poor People's Campaign demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.

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

• Civil Rights Movements
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Demonstrations
• Eugene McCarthy
• Hubert Humphrey
• Injustice
• Lincoln Memorial
• Political campaigns
• Poor People's Campaign
• Poor People's Campaign
• Poverty
• Racial Discrimination
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 9 5/16 x 6 7/8 in. (23.65 x 17.46 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 9 15/16 x 8 15/16 in. (25.24 x 22.7 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen