Looking for Similarities and Patterns

Step One:You are historians of the Russo-Japanese War. You have been given an unorganized set of visual primary documents (slides two through four). These documents are in no particular order or established categories. It is up to you to examine the documents, and then establish categories by content.

Look for patterns in the content. Copy and paste postcards with like content onto empty slides (slides five through 10). After a slide has three or four postcards with like theme or content within it, write a descriptive title for that category at the top. Although there are five empty slides in the template, you are not bound to that number and may insert additional slides.

Step Two:Examine the signature graphic for postcards of Japanese origin (slide 10). Choose an alternative graphic from the set of postcards and list three reasons for choosing this graphic.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2006 Visualizing Cultures

Images from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection of Japanese Postcardsat the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Asia Rising and Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril – Lesson 02Doing the Historian's Work

Images 1-16 of 48 images

Images 17-32 of 48 images

Images 33-48 of 48 images

Write your first category here

Write your second category here

Write your third category here

Write your fourth category here

Write your fifth category here

List three reasons your graphic represents Japanese views of the Russo-Japanese War.Note: One of your reasons must address why this graphic is visually compelling.

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Signature graphic for Japanese postcards: Place your signature graphic here.