Conversation Starters

One of the resources I mentioned before was the Alaska Digital Archives. Using their database of media, I found a plethora of photographs and videos referencing Juneau. I've highlighted some of them that could be used to help students notice changes, specifically photographs of places within walking distance of my school.

Auk Villege (1888)
http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg21,5645

Where do you think this photograph was taken?
Why do you think that?
What is different about the photograph and the same site today?
What does the photograph tell you about Auk Village?




Exterior view of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Juneau and three adjacent buildings (collection from 1880's-1970's)
http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg21,5178

Is this a recent photograph?
What is different?
What buildings are still around?
Does this photograph tell you how people lived? Can you tell if there were more or less people in Juneau?


Memorial Presbyterian Church Ball Park, July 4th Gold Creek- Juneau Douglas Bridge (1939-1959)
http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg21,8605

Where do you think this picture was taken?
What is different today? What is missing?
What can you tell about how many people lived in Juneau?
Who do you think those people are?


Juneau Alaska circa 1913
http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg21,6419

Where do you think this photo was taken and how?
Less than 50 years before, downtown Juneau was primarily used as a summer camp for the Tlingit tribes. Do you think it was still used as such?
Why do you think the miners settled downtown?
Do you think it was an easy place to live? Why?




Juneau and governor's mansion from above
http://vilda.alaska.edu/u?/cdmg21,6420

What are the differences between the 1913 picture and this one?
Can you tell which one is older? How?
What differences are there and why are there differences?