The Library of Congress

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Staff Directions

1. As you go through the album, pretend that you are a curator of a museum trying to discern answers to the following questions about each picture.
1. What is happening?

    

2. Who is present?

    

3. Who is not present?

    

4. Where is the action taking place? (region of the country, physical location)

    

5. Why was the picture included in this album?

    

6. What point is the curator trying to make?
2. Once you have the answers to these questions, try to find a pattern. What do these pictures tell us about leisure time in the 20^th Century in general? What do they tell us about card playing?
3. Write the description that would be with the display of this item when exhibited in the museum. (Be sure it is in the form of a thesis.)
4. Compare your description with your classmates.