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