1. Using Primary Sources to Persuade
Can a picture persuade you to buy a product?

2. Use the clues and questions to determine the big picture.
Directions
Look at the following pieces of a Primary Source from the Library of Congress.
Use the clues and questions to determine the big picture.
Answer each question in your composition book.

3. What do you see?
Where do you think this picture was taken?
What do you think this picture is about? Make a hypothesis.

4. What new information is presented?

5. Does the new information change your hypothesis? Why?
What is this product promising to do?

6. What adjectives does the artist use to persuade?

7. What new information is presented?
When do you think this image was taken?

8. What is the name of the product being persuaded?
Did the artist persuade you?

9. How did your perception of the image change as you saw more of it?

10. How is persuasion applied to this advertisement?

11. Reference Item Title Rapides Theater Created/Published 1912 unknown
Subjects
Louisiana--Alexandria Outdoor Advertising
Companies
Coca-Cola
Notes
Covered portion of theater
Related Resource
R.C. Maxwell Company Collection
Source Collection
Repository
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Database/Reproduction Number
M0545
DIGITAL ID
Link to Primary Source Photo: