The document discusses 6 different photographs and asks a series of questions to analyze each one. For each photo, it asks who is in it, what the situation depicts, what message the photographer intended to convey, why it is historically important, what questions it raises, suggests a caption, and how to find more information on it. The photographs show women cooking, Hitler with a young boy, police violence against protesters, a man being hanged from the Statue of Liberty, a family looking at the Statue of Liberty, and men being registered for the army.
1. Who are the people in the photograph?
1. 4 Women
2. Hitler, a little boy, and a few women in the background
3. Citizens and Police Officers
4. Statue of liberty and a man
5. A man, women and children
6. Army officers and men registering
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo
that tells you this.
1. Women cooking, evidence would be the stove and the pots, plans and plates.
2. Hitler playing with a little boy, evidence being the hand shake and the smiling women in the
background.
3. Police letting a dog attack a man who looks as if he is protesting. Evidence being a big group of
people in the background.
4. A man being hung by the statue of liberty, evidence being the rope around his neck.
5. Family looking forward to the statue of liberty.
6. Men are being checked out for something. Evidence being they are half dressed and the man in
the front looking into the other ones eye.
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
1. To show how hard these women worked.
2. How great of person people thought Hitler was.
3. How violent police were being with protesters.
4. That the “liberty” is strangling our citizens.
5. They were admiring the statue of liberty and how much better things will be.
6. The sacrifices men were making.
Why is this photograph important to history?
1. It shows old timey stoves, and dishes, and different types of clothes.
2. Because it portrays a different view of Hitler than most people have.
3. It shows how blacks were treated and how the police are so violent with them.
4. It tells how people view our liberty.
5. It gives people the idea of what immigrants thought of the United States.
6. Shows how the struggle of what it was like to be drafted.
2. What questions does this photograph raise?
1. Who are these women?
2. What this photograph staged?
3. What were they protesting for?
4. What happened to make them feel strangled?
5. Where are they immigrating?
6. Who are these men?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
1. Women making dinner.
2. Hitler meeting a young boy.
3. Black man protesting for his rights, and getting in trouble for it.
4. Feeling strangled by liberty.
5. My first look at the United States.
6. Drafting for the army.
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
1. Look for older images.
2. Google Hitler’s democracy.
3. Black history protesting.
4. Google it.
5. Look for immigration centers.
6. Google drafting pictures