Analyzing Photographs

Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to

investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?

Examine the Photograph

● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects
pictured. Examine the background, individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?

Evaluate the Photograph

● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are
likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in
the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?
Group 1:
Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?

Beaumont,
Texas. Mammie
Fairchild and
Dorothy Mason
working on a
bus at the city
transit company.
Group 2:
Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?

Chippers in a
shipyard
[Shipbuilding. Three
women working]
Group 3:

Women workers
employed as wipers in
the roundhouse having
lunch in their restroom,
C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton,
Iowa

Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?
Group 4:
Operating a hand drill
at Vultee-Nashville,
woman is working on a
"Vengeance" dive
bomber, Tennessee.

Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?
Group 5:
Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?

Beaumont,
Texas. Mammie
Fairchild and
Dorothy Mason
working on a
bus at the city
transit company.
Group 6:
Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?

Chippers in a
shipyard
[Shipbuilding.
Three women
working]
Group 7:

Women workers
employed as wipers in
the roundhouse having
lunch in their rest room,
C. & N.W. R.R., Clinton,
Iowa

Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify
○ Examine
○ Evaluate
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?
Group 8:
Operating a hand drill
at Vultee-Nashville,
woman is working on
a "Vengeance" dive
bomber, Tennessee.

Use The Write Path: History/Social Science, p. 180, to investigate questions for your assigned image.
Answer at least one question each from:
○ Identify-
○ Examine-
○ Evaluate - propaganda
Post your group’s responses on the assigned Google Slide.

Identify the Photograph

● Who took the picture and when?
● Who was the intended audience?
● Why was the photograph taken?
Examine the Photograph
● Divide the photograph into several parts and make a list of objects pictured. Examine the background,
individuals, groups, or objects.
● Describe the action or the subject of the photograph.
● What details in the photograph yield the most information?
Evaluate the Photograph
● Based on what can be seen in the photograph, what facts are likely to be true?
● Explain the impact this photograph may have had on viewers in the past.
● What questions do you have about this photograph?
● In what ways might this photograph be misleading?