build up a picture of life in the past Photographs Photographs play - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

To explain how photographs help to build up a picture of life in the past

Photographs

• Photographs play a very important role in documenting the past

because they help us to capture a snapshot of that time period.

• Why are there not many photographs of schools/school children

from Victorian/Edwardian times compared to the multitude of photographs that we have today?

• ANSWER:
• Photography was expensive and had to be staged and printed

from film whereas today we can use digital cameras/IPads that require no film and are portable.

What can we see in these photographs? How does the school look different?

Record similarities and differences in your book 1913 2020

Can you spot where the school is on this map?

1925

What is different to today?

Look carefully at the pictures and then answer the questions:

• 4a. How different is this school to Horbury Primary Academy

today? Give reasons

• 4b. Do you think that schoolteachers in Edwardian times would

normally sit with the children, or #do you think these teachers posed for the photographs?

Challenge: Which do you think are more useful, photographs from the past or photographs from today? Explain your answer.