solved Sources Take a few minutes to look through these images

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Take a few minutes to look through these images with a crib sheet mentality: (Links to an external site.)

Godey’s Lady’s Book (Links to an external site.).

Images and Questions taken from Dubois and Dumenil, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History, With Documents, 3rd ed., ed. Ellen Carol Dubois and Lynn Dumenil (Boston: Bedford, 2012), 233-239.
Then, analyze these primary source photographs.

Early Photographs Factory and Slave Women

Photographs and Questions taken from Through Women’s Eyes: An American History, With Documents, 3rd ed., ed. Ellen Carol Dubois and Lynn Dumenil (Boston: Bedford, 2012), 241-247.
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Godey’s Lady’s Book

Examine the expressions, demeanor, and dress of the women from the Godey’s illustrations shown here. 

What do they have in common? 
Why do they show so little variety? 
How might women readers have regarded these images and tried to imitate them?

Look at the profiles of the true women from Godey’s.  Notice their tiny waists, the composure of their hands, the elegance of their bearing. How do these and other details reinforce the message that women are unfit for the public sphere?
Consider Godey’s in light of fashion magazines you are familiar with today. 

What is the appeal of fashion magazines for women? 
How seriously do you take the lifestyle and the profiles modeled in the magazines you read? 
How can such sources be read critically to reveal something about contemporary times?

Photographs

Compare the attitudes and expressions of the factory operatives and the slave women, especially the slave “mammies.”  How does the fact that one group chose to photograph themselves while the others were photographed by their masters change the meaning of the photographs?
All of these early photographs show women defined by their labor. 

Does work, in any way, offer common ground between factory operatives and slaves?  How are the women in these photographs different from the images in Godey’s Lady’s Book (Visual Sources, pp. 233-39) of middle-class “true women”? 
What do you think of the fact that the former were more likely to come down to us in photographs, while the images of the latter were preserved in illustrations and paintings?

Consider what photographs add to historical documentation. 

What can photographs, even at this early stage, tell us about women’s history that other sorts of images cannot? 
Conversely, how should we analyze photographs to avoid the temptation of regarding them as transparent mirrors of a lost historical reality?