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What Do You See?
Photo Analysis Guide
Activities

Do students really see everything that is depicted in a picture or photograph? These activities have been designed to teach students how to critically look at visual images.

Directions: Examine the picture below. Scroll from left to right to view the entire panorama. Using the photo analysis guide, describe what you see in the picture.
train wreck
(Click on the image for a larger version)

Wreck on I.C.R.R., near Farmer City, Ill., Oct. 6, '09

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1909 October 6
NOTES: Copyright deposit; International Stereograph Co.; October 11, 1909.
Copyright claimant's address: Decatur, Ill.
Illinois Central Railroad.
No. I.
Cleanup crew and onlookers surround wreckage.

From Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca.1851-1991
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html)

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