Reinforce Police Guard at Picketed White House: police reinforcements arrive at the White House today as several hundred pickets continue to march outside. In center background, one of the pickets carries a homemade cross with, "one Calvary was enough for God" written on it. The marchers, learning that Alabama Governor George Wallace had arrived at the White House to confer with Presdient Johnson, chanted Wallace "must go".

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

• Alabama
• Civil Rights Movements
• George Wallace
• Injustice
• Lyndon Johnson
• Picketing
• Police
• Protesters
• Racial Discrimination
• Street Scenes
• Washington DC
• White House
• White House

• Image Dimensions: 7 1/16 x 9 5/8 in. (17.94 x 24.45 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 10 in. (20.64 x 25.4 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin