Photograph collections
Look at the online galleries of Charles Marville: Photographer
of Paris
Choose 5 photographs from the collection that you find interesting, compelling,
curious, or illustrative. Use the photographs as the basis of an essay about Paris in
the late nineteenth century.
Write a 1500-word essay on one of the following themes:
1. Construction of the city
2. Juxtaposition between old and new
3. Consumer Culture
4. Public Spaces
5. Nature vs. the city
Look at the online collection of photographs by Jacob Riis
Choose 5 photographs from the collection that you find interesting, compelling,
curious, or illustrative. Use the photographs as the basis of an essay about New
York in the late nineteenth century.
Write a 1500-word essay on one of the following themes:
1. Immigrant experience
2. Construction of the city
3. Housing
4. City Streets
5. Domestic life
For an essay on travel and tourism in the nineteenth century:
Choose 5 photographs from the collection that you find interesting, compelling,
curious, or illustrative. Use the photographs as the basis for an essay about travel
and tourism in the nineteenth century.
Write a 1500-word essay on one of the following themes:
1. City and town centers
2. Archaeological sites
3. Tourists
4. Local life