PROCESS

Compare and Contrast:

1820 Immigrant from England - Farm Life

1850 Immigrant from Ireland - Factory and Mill Life

1. Compare and Contrast Images

Farm Painting: Sturbridge Village

Students will fill in a Painting Analysis Worksheet (similar to the Photo analysis Worksheet developed by the National Archives)

Merrimack Mills, Lowell Massachusetts (Courtesy Lowell Historical Society, 1850)

Your Task:

• Record key features of the image of Lowell (building size, people, types of buildings, building layouts, landscape) and then compare the painting with the image of the Farm in the 1830's (the first image on this page).

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