The document contains questions about several unlabeled historical photographs. For individual photos, the questions speculate on the subjects' identities and situation based on visual clues. For group photos, they consider possible relationships and messages. The responses provide context and raise additional questions to better understand the photos and their historical significance.

1. Who are the people in the photograph?
Individual
1. Four young German boys.
2. A group of military men that are overseas.
3. There are business men and then middle-class, or possibly lower-class, men.
Group
1. A family, maybe.
2. There is Adolf Hitler, a German boy, and two women.
3. A black protestor, the police with police dogs and some watchers
4. The statue of Liberty and a man.
5. A family.
6. Nazis and Jewish people.
What is the situation of the people in the photograph? Provide evidence from the photo that tells you
this.
Individual
1. The four boys are riding bikes giving the Nazi Germany signal.
2. A group of military men are huddled around taking a picture. They are overseas in war. I can
tell because of the area around them, with what looks like sand so they may be close to an
ocean, and the sandbags that are stacked would be used for protection at the time.
3. The two groups, upper-class and middle or lower-class, are possibly pouring out alcohol. The
reason I think it is alcohol is because, by the clothes they are wearing and the photo being
black and white, that it may be around the time of the prohibition. The reason I classify them as
separate groups is because of the clothes they have on, both are very different.
Group
1. It looks like they are cooking and preparing food. Most of them have, what looks to be, aprons
on, and there are dishes everywhere.
2. Hitler is shaking the young boy’s hand, and the women in the back are excited/happy about it.
3. A protester is getting attacked by the police and police dogs. The dogs are snapping at the
man and one has his paints in its mouth.
4. The picture shows The Statue of Liberty and a noose hanging from the arm and a man
hanging from it.
5. The family is staring off putting all their attention on something.
6. It is a concentration camp and they are shaving all the hair so they will not get lice. I can tell
because the people with no shirts are so skinny and the man shaving is in a Nazi uniform.
What message do you think the photographer was trying to convey?
Individual
1. Either trying to show happiness or possibly that all of Germany is behind Hitler.
2. A group of men with their friends, happy even though they are in war.
3. With the smiles on most of their faces they are happy about some event that happened.
Group
1. That the family is close knit, and helps out.
2. Probably that Adolf Hitler was not a bad person, propaganda.
3. Trying to convey what black people had to go through when they were trying to get Civil
Rights.
4. I think that the picture is trying to convey that African Americans are not welcome because
clearly a racist person made this.
5. That looks like the Statue of Liberty, so they may be looking for “the American dream”.
6. What they did to the Jews in those concentration camps.
Why is this photograph important to history?
Individual
1. With the time it was probably taken, there was a lot going on with Germany.
2. It can show us how those men felt, even though they are in war they are still smiling.

2. 3. It is showing how some people rejoiced about prohibition, either the end or beginning of it.
Group
1. It shows how people lived and cooked before we had all the technology.
2. It shows propaganda, which could maybe perceive people and make them think Hitler was not
terrible.
3. It shows how terrible people were, and still are.
4. Again, it showed what people of color had to go through their entire lives, because people are
still like this.
5. It shows people what the people would look towards when wanting good for their family.
6. Because it is important to show what those people had to go through because of their religion.
What questions does this photograph raise?
Individual
1.
a. Are the boys German?
b. Are they waving or signaling for the Nazis?
2.
a. Where are they at when the picture is taken?
b. Who are these men and did they do something very significant?
3.
a. Is that alcohol they are pouring out? If so, why are they doing that?
b. Is this before or after the prohibition?
Group
1.
a. Who is the family?
b. What are they doing? Cooking? Cleaning?
2.
a. Who is the young boy?
b. Are the women Hitler supporters and is that why they are letting the boy shake his hand?
3.
a. What is he getting attacked for?
b. Is it because of his race?
4.
a. Is that supposed to show racism?
b. Did this get publicity, and if so why?
5.
a. Who is the family?
b. What are they looking at?
6.
a. Who is the Nazi shaving them?
b. Where is this located?
Write your own caption for the photograph:
Individual
1. Four German boys riding their bicycles showing pride in their leader and country.
2. A group of war buddies smiling through adversity.
3. Men of every class rejoice the re-legalization of alcohol in America.
Group
1. The family is cooking while helping to get it done faster.
2. Adolf Hitler shaking a young boy’s hand.

3. 3. Police and their dogs brutally attack a man because he is fighting for his rights.
4. How hard it is to be an African American in a racist country.
5. The family stares of to the distance imaging their own American dream.
6. The Nazi shaves the skinny Jew in the concentration camp.
What could you do to find more information about this photograph?
Individual
1.
a. Look up when the picture was taken.
b. Find out where it was taken.
2.
a. Look and try to find out who these men may be.
b. Figure out what area of the world matches the area around them.
3.
a. Look when the prohibition took place and then see what kind of cameras they had to see if
it would match up.
b. Figure out where it was located.
Group
1.
a. See what kind of equipment they have and then research to find what year it came out to
see when this picture may have been taken.
2.
a. Why are the women letting the boy around Adolf Hitler?
b. Does Hitler know the child?
3.
a. Figure out the year it was taken.
b. See why the police were attacking him.
4.
a. Who made this piece of art?
b. Why did they make this?
5.
a. Find out who the family was.
b. What they are looking at.
6.
a. See where the concentration camps were held.
b. See what year the concentration camps occurred.
Based on what you have observed list 3 things you might infer from the photograph
1-
Individual
1. These boys are German.

4. 2. These men are in the military.
3. The group of men are happy about something.
Group
1. They are cooking a big meal.
2. Adolf Hitler is in the photo.
3. The man is a protester against racism.
4. That is the statue of liberty.
5. It is a family.
6. This is happening in a concentration camp.
2-
Individual
1. It was mid-day, since the boys are riding their bikes and it being bright, as much as I can since
it is black and white.
2. They are most likely overseas.
3. This picture was taken around the 1930’s, because of the black and white photography.
Group
1. The man in the front may have more money than the rest.
2. This was most likely taken in Germany.
3. This was when the African Americans were getting treated unfairly.
4. That is an African American man hanging from a noose.
5. They are probably in New York looking at the statue of liberty.
6. The men are Nazis and Jews.
3-
Individual
1. It seems that they are posing for the picture and it is on a back road, possibly close to their
home or in the close radius of it.
2. Most of them are younger people, even though there are a few older.
3. It was possibly located in New York, or a city like that, because of the clothes the “business
men” are wearing and all the buildings in the back.
Group
1. They may be working at a restaurant or a bigger house, with a lot of room.
2. The two women are fans of Hitler.
3. This was in the middle of a town, or street.
4. It is trying to show racism. Either shine light on the problem or give a message to other races.
5. The father looks dissapointed or upset because he is shrugged.
6. This happened around the 1940s.