Grade Range: 9-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, Lessons & Activities, Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 8/5/2008
This resource will help students understand how to analyze historical photos to better understand the intentions of those who took them. Every photograph is both truthful and deceptive. These images were selected to illustrate some of the intricacies in reading historical photographs. This activity is included in the online exhibition entitled Whatever Happened to Polio?
Multimedia instruction, Museum education
Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), an artist and inventor of the telegraph, was in Paris in 1839 sha...
History, Health, American history, American history, medicine, medical, US history, health, 1900’s, twentieth century, disease, infantile paralysis, Whatever Happened to Polio, 20th century, Polio, United States history, poliovirus, poliomyelitis, Disease, paralysis, science
A picture book that tells the story of athlete Wilma Rudolph, her struggle against polio, and her...
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