1. Immigrants: Welcome to the Land of Freedom
Primary sources provide perspectives of past events.
What might pictures tell us about feelings and attitudes toward America?

2. What is happening in this picture?

3. Make a hypothesis about what this is a picture of and when it was taken.
What are the men looking at?

4. What are the men looking at?

5. What do the expressions of the people tell you about the picture?

6. What new things do
you
see?

7. What new evidence do you have
to support or shift your hypothesis?

8. What questions does this image leave you with?

9.        
Unknown. (1887). New York - Welcome to the land of freedom - An ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty: Scene on the steerage deck / from a sketch by a staff artist. Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs.