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Team members:

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Below are captions for panoramic photographs from the American Memory collection, Taking The Long View, Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991. Search by keyword (using the caption as the keyword) to find each photograph. Examine and discuss each one from the following perspectives:

  1. Why did the photographer take the photo from the angle, distance and time of day that he/she did?

  2. What area of the United States are you looking at?

  3. What type of work might have been done in the area at the time the photograph was taken?

  4. Do you see evidence of industrialization? If so, what evidence?

 

Beardsley, Arizona 1908:

a)__________________________________________________________

b)__________________________________________________________

c)__________________________________________________________

d)__________________________________________________________

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan 1915:

a)___________________________________________________________

b)___________________________________________________________

c)___________________________________________________________

d)___________________________________________________________

 

Manitou, Colorado 1913:

a)___________________________________________________________

b)___________________________________________________________

c)___________________________________________________________

d)___________________________________________________________

 

McKeesport, Pennsylvania

a)___________________________________________________________

b)___________________________________________________________

c)___________________________________________________________

d)___________________________________________________________

 

Drumright, Oklahoma 1914

a)____________________________________________________________

b)____________________________________________________________

c)____________________________________________________________

d)____________________________________________________________

 

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 1913:

a)____________________________________________________________

b)____________________________________________________________

c)____________________________________________________________

d)____________________________________________________________

 

North Dakota Farmers c.1900:

a)_____________________________________________________________

b)_____________________________________________________________

c)_____________________________________________________________

d)_____________________________________________________________

 

North Dakota sod house c1900:

a)_____________________________________________________________

b)_____________________________________________________________

c)_____________________________________________________________

d)_____________________________________________________________

 

Midtown, New York 1904:

a)______________________________________________________________

b)______________________________________________________________

c)______________________________________________________________

d)______________________________________________________________

 

Steamer loading hides 1902:

a)_______________________________________________________________

b)_______________________________________________________________

c)_______________________________________________________________

d)_______________________________________________________________

 

Based on your examination of all photographs listed, what single most important natural resource seems essential for early industrialization to have occurred in a region?

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Now, go back to your list of early occupations and, in the left margin beside each region on this worksheet, list the occupations that your team thinks might have occurred in that particular area.

 

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