Photo Analysis Migrant Worker Photos from American Memory/Arizona Memory Projects.

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Photo Analysis Migrant Worker Photos from American Memory/Arizona Memory Projects

Teacher Guide Use the Photo Analysis Guide to choose some areas of the photo to look at (people, objects, structures, landscape, activities).Photo Analysis Guide Drag the drawn polygon to screen unwanted sections of the photo. Have students focus on the elements of the photo that you have chosen. Have students fill in the details they observe in the gray text boxes.

Landscape 1.Scan the entire photo. 2.Drag the mask at the bottom of the slide to focus on one area. 3.Use sensory language to list what you see, Type it in the gray box. 4.During this part of the analysis, don’t make inferences. Just list what you see. Landscape -no trees, small, widely scattered bushes -dry, desert -clear sky -paved road with dirt side Photograph of a migrant family riding in the back end of a truck, during the Great Depression, in Gila County (Ariz.), RG89, Image # , History and Archives Division, Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, Phoenix. A digital copy of this image is available from the Arizona Memory Project, Arizona Archives Historic Photos Collection,

People -3 people

People Objects -old, beat up truck

Now use the Photo Analysis Guide to do parts 4 – 8.Photo Analysis Guide

Reading an Image: Photo Analysis Guide 1. Carefully study the entire photograph. 2. Divide the photo into sections. Study each section. Look for details. 3. Use the criteria below to list what you see. People Objects Structures Landscape Activities 4. Describe your feelings and thoughts about what you see. Try this pattern of writing: “I see and it makes me think of....” OR.... it reminds me of....” 5. What might you infer about the people and activities in the photo. Use the following to help you: What I See What I Infer What I Need to Investigate 6. What does the photo tell you about life in the US at this time? Include economic, political, social, or cultural events during this time period. 7. What biases do you find in the photo? 8. List 2 questions you still have about this photo.

Now analyze some more photos. Work in a group at your table. On highway no. 1 of the "OK" state...Seven children and eldest son's family, Lange, Dorothea, fsa 8b32349, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, American Memory, Lib of Congress Refugee families encamped near Holtville, CA. Lange, Dorothea, fsa 8b31747, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, American Memory, Lib of Congress. 29http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- 29 Drinking water for field worker's family, Lange, Dorothea, fsa 8b13681, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, American Memory, Lib of Congress. bin/query/D?fsaall:102:./temp/~ammem_sQHh:: bin/query/D?fsaall:102:./temp/~ammem_sQHh Oklahoma migratory workers washing in a hot spring, Lange, Dorothea, fsa 8b31863, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection American Memory, Lib of Congress. 29http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi- 29