• Locate the Wichita Photo Archives website on your personal computer.

Select from your “Favorites” menu or enter this address:
http://www.wichitaphotos.org/frontpage.asp

• Experiment with the search and navigation possibilities.

Each time you search, a range of items will appear in chronological order, oldest first.  These items are called records.

a.  Click on a decade.

b.  Notice that each record consists of a thumbnail image and some information known as metadata.

c.  Practice clicking on the thumbnail image to view an enlargement.  Use the “Back” button to return to the metadata.

d.  Locate and click on the “New Search” link to return to the Search page after each search.

e.  Enter the keyword streetcar (or a word of your choice).  Return to Search Page.

f.  Click on the subject category of your choice.

• Locate the Wichita Photo Archives website on your personal computer.
Check your “Favorites” menu or enter this address:
http://www.wichitaphotos.org/frontpage.asp

• Go to the Search Page, enter keyword Carleton, and browse the records that appear.

• Talk about the details you see in the photographs with your class.

1.  Look at the buildings.
What details do you see?
What differences and similarities?

2.  Look for vehicles.
Are they in every photograph?  Why?
If we knew about automobile styles could we know when the photographs were taken?

3. Look at the people.
What are they doing?
What are they wearing?
What can we infer from their clothing?

4.  Read the metadata. (Use the “Back” button to access it.)
What information do you find there? 
What inferences can you make?
How would you comment on life in Wichita as seen in these photographs?

a. Read a summary of a newspaper article in the Tihen Notes and learn more about Carleton School.

Here are two ways to read about Carleton School.

b. Read a short history of Carleton School adapted from A History of Wichita Public School Buildings.

5.  Use the “Back” button repeatedly to go back to the Carleton School photographs in Wichita Photo Archives.

6.  Finish the class discussion with your teacher.
Describe a sequence of events that ties all the photos together. 
What do these photos tell us about change?
What further changes can you imagine?  

Preparation for Step 3:  Click these links and follow the instructions. Use “Back” Button to return to this Student Assignment Page.

How to Search the Tihen Notes for Annotated Newspaper Articles

How to Locate Entire Newspaper Articles

Select a topic from the chart below and follow these instructions:

• Locate two or more photographs from the Wichita Photo Archives that illustrate your topic.
• Search the Tihen Notes for articles about your topic. 

Begin with the dates suggested in the chart; use clues in the articles and metadata for other keywords and dates to search.  Information on certain buildings in Wichita may be found in “Then and Now” website at http://members.cox.net/wichitahpa/then_now.html.

• Write a summary about the photographs using information you found in your research.

Or:  

• Select a topic of your own interest from the photographs in the Wichita Photo Archives and search the Tihen Notes for possible articles.