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Individual Analysis Questions
- What is the item you are looking at? It could be a book, photograph, letter, or some other kind of object or document. List one textual, physical, and visual characteristic of your source. For example, is it published or written by hand? Can you tell what it's made out of (paper, metal, cloth)? How are colors used? Is there anything you can learn about this object based on its physical characteristics?
- Who created the source you’re looking at and why do you think it was created? Is there a specific point the creator was trying to make or message the creator was trying to send?
- What sort of information can your source provide about the U.S. women’s suffrage movement or about the United States during or after the movement? If you have chosen an image or visual item (e.g. photograph, poster, pin, map, book cover, etc.) consider what it shows about how woman suffragists, anti-suffragists, or other activists used imagery as a movement tool. Do political movements and social causes use these kinds of communication tools today? Can you give some examples?
