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Directions: Click on the number beneath the picture. Read the descriptions for each one. What invention/innovation is shown? When was the picture taken? What effect did the invention/innovation have on society?
image from daguerreotype collection

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America's First Look into the Camera:
Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864

America from the Great Depression to World War II:
Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

 image from FSA-OWI collection

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image from Northern Great Plains collection

3

The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand
and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections

Touring Turn of the Century America: Photographs
from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920

 turn of the century image

4

image from american landscape collection

5

American Landscape and Architectural
Design, 1850-1920

Washington As It Was: Photographs by
Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959

 image from washington as it was collection

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