Today's Visual Primary Sources for the History Classroom

Activities for the History Classroom

Clarence D. Batchelor, Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy, New York Daily News (25th April, 1936)
"Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your Daddy"

Clarence D. Batchelor, New York Daily News (25th April, 1936)
 

Question: (i) Who is Daddy? (ii) What is Clarence D. Batchelor saying about American foreign policy?

The Daily Mirror (19 November 1910)
The front page of The Daily Mirror that showed the attack on Ada Wright (19 November 1910)

Question: The photograph of Ada Wright taking during Black Friday appeared on the front page of The Daily Mirror. Explain why the government demanded that the negative be destroyed.