Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives

Programming Ideas

• The Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, FL, created an Arts Integrated Curriculum for a local elementary school. Some activities included using a photograph from the early 1900s to write a news article on theimage; making a Model T Ford out of clay; writing a story about being a tomato farmer in the 1920s; role playing about black and white soldierson the battlefield in Germany; studying poems to determine a larger historical context; brainstorming about the way products like appliances and automobiles will look in the future; making Tie-Dye t-shirts.
• The North Carolina Museum of History offered "Photographing North
  Carolina's Treasures" where participants spent a morning getting
  tips from a well-known photographer while they captured images of
  Raleigh's historic landmarks on film.

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Museum Responses

• "We absolutely loved Picturing the Century! The Smithsonian name
  gave the exhibit instant credibility and everyone in the community took note. There is no admission charge to visit the Hoard Museum, but we
  do have a donation box near the front door. Last year, 2003, we took
  in a total of $2,895.74. During the 8 weeks that SITES Picturing the Century was here, we took in $3.083.42 . . . The SITES exhibit
  attracted an additional 3,579 visitors for an increase of 135%!"
  —Sue Hartwick, Hoard Historical Museum, Fort Atkinson, WI

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