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     This album has primary sources from the Great Depression.

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    CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering a mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia
    Wife of a migratory laborer with three children. Near Childress, Texas. Nettie Featherston
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    Aaron, the Great Depression topic has been used by numerous teachers and librarians to teach inquiry using primary sources. It's a very large topic and you would benefit by finding a sub-topic within that broad concept.  One way to do that is to go to the TPS webpage at loc.gov and click Classroom Materials.  If you search in that section's search box, you will find 69 links that take you to primary source sets, lesson plans and presentations about immigration, migration, economics, government services, the environment and poverty.

    Just reading the summaries of those Classroom Materials will give you ideas for how to include primary sources in the inquiry lessons you want to teach in your classroom.  I use these TPS curated sets and teacher guides often to narrow the search for specific topics.

    Aaron,

    Many of the LOC images are geolocated here in Photogrammar, a digital mapping project from the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab. You may break them down by city, town or county level and by topic.
    Learning Resources are also included.  

      Anne Evans , this is an amazing resource! I can't wait to take a deep dive and search for images from my home state of North Carolina and especially Guilford County where we have traced the first family member who fought in the Revolutionary War. 

    The Photogrammar tools for searching by theme, location, date, photographer make the collection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) so accessible to teachers and students. I love the name of this project and the explanation given on the project website for how the name and the project evolved.   https://photogrammar.org/about  

    Are there ongoing PD opportunities to learn more about Photogrammar and how it is being used in K-12 classrooms?

    Ann Canning  I am happy to provide PD via Zoom for this and any of the other maps/resources. Photogrammar is part of a larger digital humanities site, New American History. All free and free virtual PD is always an option. 

    Good news!  Thanks Anne.  I'll get in touch with you.

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