This document contains a student's responses to questions about 6 different historical photographs. For each photo, the student identifies the subjects, analyzes what the photo conveys about their situation and the photographer's message. The student also provides their own caption and suggests ways to find more context about the photo. Overall, the document demonstrates the student's ability to analyze historical photos and make inferences about the people, events, and time periods depicted.

1. FYS-100
Dr. Blanco
February 12, 2015
Crossing the border Group:
o Jessica Meadows
o Austin Tyree
o Ryan Taylor
o Jason Dandelet
o Jarrod Hunley
o Austin Meade
Who are the people in the photograph?
1) Women, cooking
2) Hitler, a little boy and women looking on in adoration
3) Civil rights protest
4) Black man hanging from statue of liberty
5) A man and woman and a male child
6) People getting a health inspection
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
That tells you this.
1) Cooking they are over the stove and by a table there is cooking material
2) A little boy shaking Hitler’s hand at what looks likes a picnic
3) A civil rights protest most likely down south twitch police brutality
4) A black man hanging from the statue of liberty
5) They are looking at the Statue of Liberty
6) The people are getting a health inspection before entering Ellis Island
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
1) It looks like they are cooking for a large event.
2) Hitler was a family man
3) The immense struggle African Americans had to endure in the 1960’s
4) Freedom isn’t free for everyone
5) How beautiful America is
6) How difficult it was to become a U.S. citizen
Why is this photograph important to history?
1) It shows women were dominant in the kitchen.
2) Shows a leader commonly referred to as evil being a good man
3) The vigil rights movement was incredibly important in American history and impacted all citizens
4) It portrays the struggle of African Americans in America
5) America is free and the Statue of Liberty is one of the many representations of our freedom

2. 6) It shows the Immigration process in the 18th and 19th century and how America became a melting
pot of all cultures
What questions does this photograph raise?
1) Where are the men? What are they cooking for?
2) Do these people believe that he was good?
3) Where was this, why are there dogs, why is this brutality shown on camera
4) Why is this man dead?
5) Where they immigrants? Where are they standing?
6) What was the searching for? What illness was in Ellis Island?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
1) Family meal planning
2) Hitler shakes impressionable boys hand
3) Protesters attacked in peaceful gathering
4) Liberty for whites
5) Looking at liberty
6) Ellis island health screening
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
1) See here it came from, research if possible
2) Research Hitler, most likely fall
3) Look up gatherings, find the photograph and photographer and submit a question
4) Look up the picture and find the artist
5) Research the photograph and also research Leis Island
6) Research about Ellis Island and the process it took to become an American citizen
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
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3. 1)It’s the twentieth century due to her wearing pants
2) Its warm outside, Germany has a genrerally chllt cxlimate and the boy is wearing a drindl common
in the alps therefore it is most likely summer
3) Most likely down south, spanish moss on trees
4) It was a drawing not a photograph because they didn’t have photoshop then and giant men don’t
exist
5) It looks cold outside judging by their clothing
6) They are looking to see if they are healthy
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1)Not urbanized, rural and poor area without electricity
2) Theyre having a picnic, it is a pleasant sunny day
3) Civil rights protest turned bad, dogs attack people
4) It was associated eith the civil rights movement
5) It is winter or fall judging by the clouds and the water
6) How hard it is to become an american
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!1Cooking for a large group of peoples.
2) Everyone is happy to be there
3) people choose to look on rather then help their peers
4) The clouyds in the picture represent the storm of emotions surrounding the civil rights movement
5) They are not from America, possibly eastern european going by the womans hair style
6) People would do anything to become an American Citizen

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