Group Picture Analysis

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Harold Blanco
Picture Analysis
Who are the people in the photograph?
1. Women canning food.
2. Hitler, a young child, and maybe the child’s mother and grandmother.
3. Possible the infamous conflict in Montgomery, Alabama between freedom marchers and
the Montgomery Police Department.
4. Black man hanging from a model of the Statue of Liberty.
5. Possibly immigrants recently arrived in NYC.
6. German soldiers getting physicals.
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
which tells you this.
1. Perhaps they are canning food from the looks of the photo it probably taken in the early
1900’s and maybe during the depression. They are using an old fashioned wood stove
and the white liquid on the table looks like milk.
2. He’s conveying himself to the child and his family that he is a polite and dignified man.
3. There are several African Americans and police, but don’t seem to be rioting. It’s like
they are just preventing them from going on the march with the use of force and German
Shepards.
4. There is a black person hanging from the Statue of Liberty.
5. Perhaps they are intrigues to see the statue that they have longed to see, the Statue of
Liberty.
6. They look as if they are being examined. The soldier in uniform is looking in the other
man’s eyes.
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
1. To show a group of individuals possibly in rough times and how they can work together
to get things done.
2. That this is Hitler’s perfect human and that he is active amongst the community.
3. How African-American people were oppressed by all means of authority.
4. That in a country where there is such freedom, there are people who do not enjoy that
privilege and die when they try to achieve it.
5. That America is a place of freedom for anyone.
6. Just the care Hitler had for his Army.
Why is this photograph important to history?
1. Maybe to document the life of people during the depression.

2. 2. It just emphasizes Hitler’s feeling of German superiority and how he overcame the minds
of German commonwealth as well as lower classes.
3. It documents the African-American communities struggle in America.
4. It proves persecution of African Americans.
5. Because we had a large influx of immigrants at that time which showed our nation.
6. Just documentation.
What questions does this photograph raise?
1. Did everyone work together to help each other?
2. None really, it seems self explanatory.
3. Why did white America try to suppress African Americans in the first place?
4. Where is the help from all the people who say they have no prejudice? Why are they not
helping?
5. What really constitutes freedom?
6. None to me.
Write your own caption for the photograph.
1. People working together.
2. Hitler’s ideal human.
3. Africans prevented from freedom march.
4. African American hung for pursuing true freedom.
5. Immigrants arrive in New York to pursue the American dream.
6. German soldiers preparing for war.
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
1. Look into archives of the early 1900’s.
2. Check online or read a history book.
3. Look at history books in the library.
4. Books and conversation with elderly African Americans.
5. History books.
6. Online and library.
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph.
1. Neighbors or family pulling together, they were using a wood stove, and the lady on the
far right was pouring milk.
2. The superiority Hitler felt as a German, the opinion of citizens towards Hitler, and how
sincere Hitler may have came off.
3. African Americans were opprossed, the authority in the location seems determined to
crash the freedom march, and the African Americans were being threatened my physical
danger.

3. 4. African Americans truly suffered and were very wronged, even though America is
supposed to be free it is not that way for some, and “American liberty means liberty for
white people”- just an expected mindset for prejiduce people.
5. American is a haven for all people, the child is amused by the statue, and the general
essence that I see is that they seem almost relieved..
6. Germans take care of their own, every German soldier must be perfect, and they were
serious about their soldiers being in good health.