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Lesson Two: Photo Analysis

  1. Have students analyze selected Farm Service Administration photos from American Memory using the online Artifact Analysis Worksheet.
  2. Give students copies of the Artifact Analysis Worksheet handout on which to record their thoughts.
  3. Allow students to view additional photographs from the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1935-1945. Students select three additional photographs from the collection, completing an Artifact Analysis Worksheet handout for each photograph.

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