Picture This! Using Historic Photographs as Writing Prompts

Stieglitz, Alfred. “The Steerage.” 1907. Metropolitan Museum of Art.http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/33.43.419.

“A Chinese Immigrant's "Interview" with the Bureau of Immigration on Angel Island in the 1920s.” Found San Francisco. http://foundsf.org

“Italian Employment Agency.” c. 1908. Chicago Historical Society, DN 204. In Round Trip to America by Mark Wyman, 56. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

Hine, Lewis. “Italian Madonna.” 1905. In American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato. New York: Harper Collins, 2009.

Nadel, Leonard. “Bracero Workers being Fumigated with DDT, in Houston, Texas.” 1956. Smithsonian Museum of American History. http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/collection/object_441.html.

Riis, Jacob. “Five Cents a Spot.” 1890. Cosmeo. Discovery Education. http://www.cosmeo.com.

“Women Bidding Farewell to Members of their Family at Islamabad International Airport as they Board a Flight to Manchester, UK.” 1997. Moving Here: Migration Histories. Bradford Heritage Unit. United Kingdom National Archives. http://www.movinghere.org.uk