The document contains questions about an unlabeled photograph and responses attempting to analyze details in the photograph to infer context and meaning. Responses note people in the photograph include women cooking, Hitler with children and elderly women, policemen and African Americans. Questions are raised about the situation, message conveyed by the photographer, importance to history, and how to find more information. Responses vary in plausibility and insight gleaned from limited visual details.

1. Who are the people in the photograph?1) Women
2) Adolph Hitler, a child and elderly women.
3) Policemen and African Americans.
4) Statue of Liberty and a person of color.
5) Looks like a family. Mom, Dad, and child
6) Military officers and enlisted men possibly
7) Adolescent boys
8) Military men
9) Men in suits
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
1) Cooking, based on the evidence of their actions and surrounding cooking ingredients.
2) Appear happy at some gathering. It can be deduced it’s a gathering with a child and women
and multiple people in one social setting.
3) Likely protest.
4) The person of color being hung from an American landmark.
5) From their clothes it tells me that they don’t have much money.
6) The men without shirts on are getting a physical examination
7) They are riding bikes with the same uniform on and all have their right hand raised, which tells
me they are somewhere in Europe during the time of WW2
8) They look like they are stationed abroad. The stacks of bags and tent in the background tells
me this
9) A few of the men are pouring out a liquid from jugs while a crowd looks on
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
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How women’s original cooking routine was.
He was viewed as a hero in his homeland and not a tyrannical monster.
Trials and tribulations of the Civil Rights movement.
People of color don’t belong in America.
Looks like the photographer was trying to show how people viewed the Statue of Liberty as
a symbol of opportunity
I don’t know
How the youth of time was being brainwashed
The brotherhood feeling amongst men
I don’t know

2. Why is this photograph important to history?
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The woman’s work ethic on cooking before mechanized assistance.
To understand the different views on Hitler among different people.
So history is not repeated.
To show the ignorance of the common American citizen in those times towards minorities.
It shows how people of the early 20th century viewed America as a land of liberty and
opportunity
I don’t know
It’s a record of how certain youth in that time and place were susceptible to propaganda
It shows how in certain situations men of all colors can be like family
I don’t know
What questions does this photograph raise?
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Why are there multiple women cooking for?
Was this earlier in the life of Hitler?
What were the circumstances?
What inspired the photographer to construct this image?
Are they immigrants?
Who are the men? Are they enlisted men or prisoners?
Who are the boys? Are they members of a certain school or group?
Where are they stationed at? How long have they been there? Did they live?
What are they pouring out? Why are they happy about it?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
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Kiss the cook.
I’m not such a bad guy.
Who are the real criminals?
Your kind isn’t welcome.
Hope
Next
The youth is the future
Hoo Rah
Good riddance

3. What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
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Google’s comparative image search.
Researching Hitler’s early political campaign.
Researching Civil Rights protests.
Research the origins of the photographer.
You could first try and find out when the photo was taken and who took it, then research the
photographer
First try and find what country and when it was taken
If you found out what kind of bikes they’re riding you may be able to tell where and when the
photo was taken
You can find out when and where it was taken, then possibly find out who the men are in that
company
Try to find out what it is they are pouring out
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
1.- 1) In the past.
2)Before/Early holocaust.
3) Policemen were not helping.
4) Understand it is not real.
5) That they don’t have much money
6) examinations were thorough
7) it is daytime
8) they are stationed abroad
9) the men are not poor, they are nicely dressed

4. 2-1) Tight kitchen space available.
2). Happy gathering of some sort.
3) Civil gathering of some sort.
4) Whites didn’t like blacks.
5) they could possibly be immigrants
6)it is day time
7) the boys know each other
8) they are friends
9) the liquid could possibly be liqour, the time of the photo looks like it was maybe during
prohibition
3-1) What are the men doing.
2. He loved blue eyed blonde kids.
3.Why the excessive force with dogs.
4.Why the Statue of Liberty.
5)they are possibly a family
6)the window is open and there is a fan, it is probably hot out
7) they are all supporters of Hitler
8) its hot out because some have their shirts offf
9) the men are happy