Analyzes pictures

1. Who are the people in the photograph?
Picture 1: four people in a kitchen
Picture 2: Hiler+child+ 2 women in the background
Picture 3: police brutality
Picture 4: non white people don’t get freedom
Picture 5: family looking at the Statue of Liberty
Picture 6: doctors, military personnel, applicants for the military
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
Picture 1: three of them are gathered around a stove, while the other one is mixing
something in a bowl at the counter
Picture 2: admiring the child
Picture 3: scary dogs+ mean looking cops= scared people
Picture 4: what seems like a black man is being hung by the symbol of Freedom in
America for immigrants
Picture 5 : family immigrating to America, little boy pointing at the statue
Picture 6: doctors examining potential soldiers, military personnel supervising
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
Picture 1: the complications of living back then- how far technology has come
Picture 2: Hitler isn’t a monster
Picture 3: police brutality during the civil rights movement
Picture 4: people of non-white origin don’t get freedom
Picture 5: hope
Picture 6: the need to be physically fit for service
Why is this photograph important to history?
Picture 1: the differences in lifestyles between then and now
Picture 2: propaganda to show Hitler isn’t all monster
Picture 3: it shows the racial strain during the civil rights movement
Picture 4: lady liberty- known for representing equality and freedom for all is hanging
those who need it most
Picture 5: it shows the hop people had when they immigrated to the US
Picture 6: the desperate need for healthy soldiers

2. What questions does this photograph raise?
Picture 1: what are they cooking? Who are they cooking for? When was the photo
taken?
Picture 2: was it staged? Why is this kid so important(illegitimate)?
Picture 3: why is the k9 unit needed? Did that guy even get bit? Was this innocent
attack or were the officers provoked?
Picture 4: was it made during the immigration boom?
Picture 5: was this taken on Ellis or Angel Island? What year was this taken in? where
did they come from?
Picture 6: what country is this for? What were they being checked for?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
Picture 1: to cook or not to cook
Picture 2: propaganda for the cause
Photograph 3: attack of the evil dogs
Picture 4: give me liberty or give me death
Picture 5: “look mom that’s a big lady”
Picture 6: atleast it’s not Mendeleve
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
Picture 1: time period stove was used, clothing time period,
Picture 2: backtrack it reverse phot search
Picture 3: history website,
Picture 4: find out the artist, read what he/she says about the art
Picture 5 : find out the directions lady liberty faces, from there we can find out the time
of day it is as well as where they are coming from
Picture 6: research the uniform and interior to find out where the orgin of the picture.

3. Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
1-
Picture 1: there’s a coco-cola box under the table
Pictire 2: kid doesn’t like him
Picture 3: scary dog eatiung the mans hand off
Picture 4: man is being hung on the staute of liberty
Picture 5: they are on a boat
PICTURE 6: it’s inside
2-
Picture 1: in a kitchen
Picture 2: it’s taken inside
Picture 3: no one seems to be horrified by what’s happening
Picture 4: non-white male being hung
Picture 5: after 12:00
Picture 6: it’s daytime
3-
Picture 1: they’re cooking a big meal
Pictuere 2: women like Hitler
picture 3: before or after noon
picture 4: the setting is depressing- cloudy
picture 5: little kid has never seen the statue of Liberty before
picture 6 :routine check