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.