Bringing History Home | Third Grade | Unit 1 Alternative | Activity 1

Third Grade

Unit 1 | Activity 1

Activity 1: Long, long ago - Farming, communication, sewing, & transportation.
1-1	Plowing with ten-horse team, Ryken farm, Hardin County, Iowa. Photographer: Rothstein, Arthur (1915- ) Created/published: September 1939 Call Number: LC-USF34-028055D Part of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 Digital ID: (intermidiary roll film) fsa 8b18318
1-2	Colville Girls doing hand sewing outdoors. Photographer: Ladd, ? Notes: A group of girls and young women sit at tables outside wooden building doing handsewing, watched by nun. Reproduction Number: L97-10.61 Repository: Eastern Washington State Historical Society Digital ID: visit url
1-3	Horse drawn wagons and carriages being driven along Lake Street between rows of parked vehicles along North Dearborn Street. Photographer: Chicago Daily News, Inc. Created/published: 1909 Summary:View looking north toward South Water Street of horse drawn wagons and carriages being driven between rows of parked vehicles along North Dearborn Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. H.J. Trumbull Company building at 112 South Water Street is partially visible in the background. Reproduction Number: DN-0054760 Repository: Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614-6071 Digital ID: (original negative) ichicdn n054760
1-4	Horace Hull, wearing a clerk’s visor, writing on a piece of paper, sitting at a desk in a room. Photographer: Chicago Daily News, Inc. Created/published: 1928 Notes: This photonegative, taken by a Chicago Daily News photographer, may have been published in the newspaper. Reproduction Number: DN-0084995 Repository: Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614-6071 Digital ID: (original negative) ichicdn n084995
1-5	Plowing the fields.
1-6	Here is another grade 7 student at work on a sewing machine.
1-7	Chicago Traffic
1-8	Just Planes
1-9	Chicago Trains
1-10	Computers
1-11	Phones

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