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Posted By: davidcycleback

The wirephoto process involved putting a photograph into a wirephoto machine, which made an image copy of the photo and sent this image sent via telephone wire to another wirephoto machine far away where the image was developed onto photopaper into a second paper photograph-- a copy of the first. The received copy photograph is what a wirephoto is. Many people use 'wirephoto' as a generic term to describe any and all photos made by AP or UPI or other news services, but wirephotos are only the ones made via the just described wirephoto process.

So you are correct that your wirephotos were reproduced from original AP photos, as that's how wirephotos were made.