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[Detail] New York, N.Y., immigrants' landing, Ellis Island

Lesson Preparation

Materials

• Student mementos - baby pictures, artwork, stories, toys, awards.
• Textual and graphical materials from local archives - school archives or those from a local historical society .
• Colored folders for student organization of archival materials.
• Poster construction materials (poster board, glue, scissors, etc.)

• Vocabulary

Resources

• Touring Turn of the Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
• Inventing Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
• American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940