The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade used to just let the balloons float off
This collection of photographs may allow teachers to approach Thanksgiving from the perspective of marketing to explore the cultural history of the holiday and how it fits into American culture rather than the memory of the colonial event on which it is based.
Washington As It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential, and government buildings, as well as street scenes and views of neighborhoods. A number of Washington events and activities, such as the 1932 Bonus Army encampment, the 1933 World Series, and World War II preparedness campaigns, are also depicted.
Photogrammar from Yale University is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information. Students can search photographs in several different ways. Why not have them in groups assigned to different regions of the country to present what they have found and what questions they've raised by reviewing the photographs?
Farm Security Administration Photographs - NYPL Digital Collections
177 Photographs from the Farm Security Administration - some of the famed Dorothy Lang pictures are included. Can students browse through these photographs and get a real sense of the Depression? What questions to these images provoke?
