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Fred Noel
Black high school students Dorothy Bridget Davis, 16, and Henry Hobdy, 17, were refused entrance to Mobile High School in Mobile, Alabama, September 9, 1963
Vintage wire photograph on paper
5 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (13.97 x 14.29 cm)
Creation Place:
North America
Technique:
Photography
Credit Line:
Restricted gift of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg in honor of Myrlie Evers-Williams.
Accession Number:
P2021.13.310
Commentary
Turned Away at Mobile: Black high school students Dorothy Bridget Davis, 16, and Henry Hobdy, 17, were refused entrance to Mobile High School when they tried to enter for classes. Alabama state troopers blocked the entrance and read Governor George Wallace's order. Major Joe Smelley (background near wall) read the stop-order, Mobile, Alabama.
Bibliography
Associated Press ID #6309090295
Marks
On verso: typewritten label with title and date affixed.
Materials
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)
Keywords
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This object has the following keywords:
Civil Rights Movements,
Desegregation,
Dorothy Davis,
Education,
Education,
George Wallace,
Henry Hobdy,
Injustice,
Mobile,
Mobile High School,
Police,
Racial Discrimination,
Segregation,
Students
- Civil Rights Movements
- Desegregation
- Dorothy Davis
- Education
- Education
- George Wallace
- Henry Hobdy
- Injustice
- Mobile
- Mobile High School
- Police
- Racial Discrimination
- Segregation
- Students
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Dimensions
- Image Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (13.97 x 14.29 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
- Sheet Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (16.51 x 14.61 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
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