American Memory photo Page 1
Photographic Analysis
Names of Group Members:________________________________________________
Select a photograph from the American Memory collection, Touring Turn-of-the-Century
America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920. Search for
photographs illustrating the theme of immigration by entering one of the following
keywords:
children school railroad/railway
families emigrants
immigrants
Jewish carriages
market
tenement street
scene
peddler
Italians Germans
Irish
Select one photograph to analyze. Print one copy of the photograph. Attach the
photograph to the questions. Answer the questions below based on your photograph.
1. What is the title/caption of the photograph?
2. List two Library of Congress subject headings for the photograph.
3. What is the setting for the photograph?
4. Write one objective observation about the photograph.
5. Write one subjective observation about the photograph.
