Difference between revisions of "328--Week 10 Questions/Comments"

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(Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Schoolgirl at Manzanar, 1940s)
(Photograph collections at Library of Congress)
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I liked how the photos strived to capture average people in their daily activies rather than workers in action. I don't think that Bubley was trying persuade any ideal or stereotype but rather was quickly capturing groups of people and showing how different the work force had become during WWII. I thought that the photo of the women on the stairs waiting for the boarding house bathroom did show the hours of work the women had put in and the exhaustion they were facing. -- Meredith Bojarski
 
I liked how the photos strived to capture average people in their daily activies rather than workers in action. I don't think that Bubley was trying persuade any ideal or stereotype but rather was quickly capturing groups of people and showing how different the work force had become during WWII. I thought that the photo of the women on the stairs waiting for the boarding house bathroom did show the hours of work the women had put in and the exhaustion they were facing. -- Meredith Bojarski
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I have always been fascinated with older photography. You can read so much into the lives of women back then by their clothing, there mannerisms, and what they are doing.--Nikole Wellman
  
 
== Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 ==
 
== Mary McLeod Bethune on black women and the war effort, 1940 ==

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