1. What do you see? What might this picture show us?

2. List as many details as you can from this portion of the picture.

3. Now what do you see in this picture?

4. What evidence supports your claim from the previous slide?

5. What claim can you make about this person?

6. What type of document is this
What type of document is this? Add several more details about this photograph to your list.

7. Silver mining: Timothy O'Sullivan documents the activities of the mines in Virginia City, Nevada, in ft underground, O'Sullivan photographed the miners in tunnels, shafts, and lifts. During the winter of , in Virginia City, Nevada, he took the first underground mining pictures in America. Deep in mines where temperatures reached 130 degrees, O'Sullivan took pictures by the light of magnesium wire in difficult circumstances.