1. Zoom In-- Virginia History

2. Tell what you see and what questions will you ask to get the big picture? What might primary resources tell us about Virginia history?

3. What objects do you see?

4. What additional objects do you see? Where do you think this picture was taken?

5. What other objects are visible now? Has your idea of where this picture was taken changed? What helped you make this decision?

6. What new objects do you see?

7. What do you see now? Do the images present now change any of your ideas about where or when this picture was taken?

8. After viewing this portion of the photograph, who do you think these people are? What do you think they are doing?

9. After seeing the whole picture, have your ideas change at all?

10. Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va.. c1905 Library of Congress American Memories Collection

11. What do these two photographs have in common?

12. Chicago Daily News, Inc. (1911). Man looking through a hand-held telescope for the eagle. Library of Congress: American Memory, Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933.Man looking through a hand-held telescope for the eagle. Unknown. (c1905). Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va.. Library of Congress: American Memory, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va.. Unknown. (n.d.). Emancipation statue, Washington, D.C.. Library of Congress: American Memory, Touring Turn-of- the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920.Emancipation statue, Washington, D.C..