Group Analysis

1. Who are the people in the photograph?
1:3 older women and an older man.
2: Adolf Hitler, Small boy, and 2 women
3:African Americans, police and police dogs
4: Statue of liberty and a hanging body
5: A small family
6:Appears to be german military men in uniforms with some without shirts on.
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
1: These people are cooking in an early time style kitchen. Early 20’s 30’s in America because of the
wood burning stove and the metal milk/butter turns. Also everyone is wearing hard bottom shoes to
show that there are either dirt or hardwood floors. This house is also built out of timber mainly to show
it was the only way of building houses during this time.
2: Hitler greeting the small boy while the women look on and smile. Hitler appears to be speaking to
the boy. The women feel comfortable with Hitler being around the child. This may infer that they like
Hitler.
3: A group of African Americans Walking while police with angry police dogs bark and surround one
African American man. This possibly could have been during the walk on Washington. This could be
during MLK time of racial change.
4:This photo has to ways of being interpreted, one way of saying,”Give me liberty or give me death”
or showing that people have the given right to kill themselves.
5: A group of people staring of the statue of liberty in the late evening. Late evening because of the
contrast of the shadow on the ground.
6:Appears to be soldiers being shaved during WW2. This can be inferred from the uniforms about
how old this picture is also the shadowing in the picture can be a detail to show the age of it.
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
1: Lifestyle of people cooking in the early 20’s and 30’s of America.
2: To show Hitler was not always a bad guy, he was loved by his people.
3: The message was to show how things were during time for African Americans during the 50’s and
60’s.
4:People will die for liberty of the land, freedom requires some sacrifices.
5:People believe in the liberty of the country by looking at the statue of liberty.
6:To show how soldiers at the time were checked for vision and any health problems.
Why is this photograph important to history?
1: It documents the early culture of American cooking style in the 1920’s or 1930’s.
2: To show the side of Hitler that not meaning people seen. The side that was not cruel and killing
people.
3: It reminds how bad things were for African Americans during the 50’s and 60’s.
4:To show the lives lost for liberty.
5: It shows how people believe in liberty.
6:To see who is qualified to be apart of the army and who is not.

2. What questions does this photograph raise?
1: Compared to today’s style of cooking, it asks,” How did people cook during this time?”
2: How can a person that is so evil, be around a child and be loved?
3: How could the police be so cruel to African Americans, even though they are equal?
4: Why does liberty cause death?
5: What makes these people believe in liberty from viewing the statue?
6: How does this process make soldiers qualified or not qualified to fight in the armies.
Write your own caption for the photograph:
1: Old style cook in America
2: The bright side of Hitler
3: The racial line
4: Liberty cost death
5: American hope / the desire for hope and liberty
6: Before you enter the Army
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
1: Google the objects in the images, Example: the wood burning stove or the milk/butter turns.
2: Research Hitler and his not evil side.
3: Search on African American’s in the 60’s and possible walk on Washington protest
4: Research death hanging from the statue of liberty.
5: Research family life during the statue of liberty being built and after it was finished
6: research solider screening for past wars
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
1-
1: Group preparing to cook big meal.
2: Hitler looking to make people trust him
3: A racial battle
4: Death by liberty is a normal thing over war time.
5: These people can be sad or depressed from the black and white contrast
6: discipline is important in the army

3. 2-
1: Possibly all might be maids to another family.
2: Hitler trying to get a positive impression to the people.
3: Cruelty
4: Dead by the hand of liberty
5: This small family looks on to find hope in the country from looking at the statue of liberty
6: There was no much advanced screening for military soldiers during the early stages of wars.
3-
1: Old styles cooking in the early times of America.
2: Hitler trying to show his brighter side.
3: It was very hard for African Americans in this time.
4: Liberty stands for death
5: People can infer that these people see freedom in their near future.
6: At the time army buildings only used fans to cool the buildings.