Progressive Era
Task:
1) Create a Progressive Era page on your weebly website.
2) Using the websites below and your own web searches, collect images that you believe best capture the conditions that Progressives were trying to change at the turn of the twentieth century
3) Your exhibit should include 10 PHOTOGRAPHS (identifying photographer and date).
4) After arranging your collection, you will write an INTRO PARAGRAPH that explains how muckraking photographers battled social ills with their cameras. What bothered them most and why? Your collection should reflect the dire straits of impoverished Americans and immigrants during the Industrial Age.
Web Sources:
Photography of Jacob Riis:
1) Museum of the City of New York: (24 page web collection)
http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Jacob%20A.%20Riis/Page1
2) New York Times Slideshow: “Jacob A. Riis’s New York”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/27/nyregion/20080227_RIIS_SLIDESHOW_index.html?_r=0
Photography of Lewis Hine:
1) History Place Exhibit: Child Labor in America (1908-1912)
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
2) National Archives (read intro paragraphs on Hine’s documentation of child labor)
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos
You may also search "Progressive Era Photographs" for black and white images that reflect the muckraker agenda.
Due:
End of Class, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014
1) Create a Progressive Era page on your weebly website.
2) Using the websites below and your own web searches, collect images that you believe best capture the conditions that Progressives were trying to change at the turn of the twentieth century
3) Your exhibit should include 10 PHOTOGRAPHS (identifying photographer and date).
4) After arranging your collection, you will write an INTRO PARAGRAPH that explains how muckraking photographers battled social ills with their cameras. What bothered them most and why? Your collection should reflect the dire straits of impoverished Americans and immigrants during the Industrial Age.
Web Sources:
Photography of Jacob Riis:
1) Museum of the City of New York: (24 page web collection)
http://collections.mcny.org/Explore/Highlights/Jacob%20A.%20Riis/Page1
2) New York Times Slideshow: “Jacob A. Riis’s New York”
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/02/27/nyregion/20080227_RIIS_SLIDESHOW_index.html?_r=0
Photography of Lewis Hine:
1) History Place Exhibit: Child Labor in America (1908-1912)
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
2) National Archives (read intro paragraphs on Hine’s documentation of child labor)
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos
You may also search "Progressive Era Photographs" for black and white images that reflect the muckraker agenda.
Due:
End of Class, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014