The document analyzes 6 photographs and asks a series of questions to understand the context, message, and importance of each picture. For picture 1, it infers that it shows women's expected kitchen roles in the past and was likely taken before widespread electricity. Picture 2 captures an important historical figure shaking a young boy's hand at some event. Picture 3 depicts civil rights era police brutality against African Americans during a riot. Picture 4 suggests the Statue of Liberty's meaning of freedom is undermined by a person of color hanging from it.

1. Who are the people in the photograph?
Picture 1: Women, older, maybe cookers
Picture 2: An older man with mustache, little boy, 3 women watching
Picture 3: Cops, African American, German Shepard’s
Picture 4: Statue of Liberty and a person hung from the Statue of Liberty
Picture 5: mom, dad, child
Picture 6: All men, men in uniforms
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
Picture 1: Cookers because aprons on, cooking utensils, mixer, pots on stove, hair tied back out
of face
Picture 2: Meeting someone important, baby gets to shake his hand, and women looks happy
Picture 3: Riot, dogs attacking, police using force
Picture 4: Man of darker color is hanging from the Statue of Liberty
Picture 5: New York, looking at Statue of Liberty
Picture 6: Men are getting examined, shirts are off and looking at their face
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
Picture 1: Women cook
Picture 2: The main guy is important
Picture 3: Violence and uprising against race
Picture 4: Coming to America is supposed to be a new life and that’s what we were founded off
of
Picture 5: Newly in America, immigrants

2. Picture 6: Show what people had to go through
Why is this photograph important to history?
Picture 1: It shows what women’s roles were before and how it has shifted
Picture 2: Capture how important this guy is in history and captures the event
Picture 3: Shows the time of Civil Rights movement and what they had to endure
Picture 4: Statue of Liberty is the sign of new life and that is what we were founded off of
Picture 5: Captures the immigration in America
Picture 6: Documenting procedures people went through
What questions does this photograph raise?
Picture 1: What is the reason for the women cooking? Why do ¾ have dresses and one has
pants? What year? Who are they cooking for?
Picture 2: Who is the man? Why is he important? What event is it? Why is the little boy shaking
his hand?
Picture 3: Where is this taken? Did the man survive? What riot was this?
Picture 4: What is the deeper meaning? Is he an immigrant?
Picture 5: Who are the people? Where are they from? Why are they standing there?
Picture 6: Where are they? Why are they getting the exams? Which country?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
Picture 1: Old fashioned cooking
Picture 2: You can tell a man by his handshake
Picture 3: Riot in the Streets
Picture 4: Pain of a new life

3. Picture 5: Looking towards the future
Picture 6: Exanimate this
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
Picture 1: When were regular stoves and electric mixers invented?
Picture 2: Figure out who the man is and the date of the photograph and where it was taken
Picture 3: Look up riots in Civil Rights movement and find where and when the picture was
taken
Picture 4: Look up the meaning of the Statue of Liberty and find out who drew the picture
Picture 5: When it was taken and who the people are
Picture 6: Look up military/work exams they did previously and where this was taken
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
Picture 1: Cooking for an event. Women are expected to be in the kitchen. Not too old because of
electricity.
Picture 2: The man is Hitler. The boy is blonde and has blue eyes. He had just done a speech.
Picture 3: Took place during the Civil Rights movement. Black vs. White. Inhumane police
force.
Picture 4: The meaning of the Statue of Liberty is freedom. He is an immigrant. Having a new
life in America isn’t always what it is cracked up to be.
Picture 5: They are all immigrants. Newly in America. They are looking at the Statue of Liberty.

4. Picture 6: Examining for a conservation camp. During WWII. Nazi’s are giving the exam.