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==Learning Activity 8-B-1: Local History Project==

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==Learning Activity 3-D-2: Local Documents, Data, and Cartoons==

===1 [] Anti-trust cartoons]: Nursery Rhymes for Infant Industries, No. 15: 'O' is the Oil Trust, a modern Bill Sikes; he defies the police, and does just as he likes===

I would use this cartoon to show how labors had to fight for their rights at the beginning of the industrial revolution. This could lead into a discussion of what kind of obstacles the logging industry may have run into during this time.



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U.S. Treasury Warrant in the Amount of $7.2 Million, for the Purchase of Alaska

August 1, 1868 National Archives, Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury

This primary source would be introduced to show students what else was going on in the country during the time that Ridway was established.

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Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1878 This source can be used to show the stuggles of the laborer and of child labor laws during the time that Ridgway was established. This is not the original document but is the original text.

4 [] 1881 President Garfields death
This source would also be used to show students what was going on in the country as Ridgway was being established. The article discusses in detail how he was shot and to what lengths the doctors tried to save him at the scene.

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The picture goes along with the primary source article.

===5 []=== document on railroad riots - This article can be used to show the struggle in the late 1800s to get product to every family.

[] The Autobiography of a Labor Leader: James Williams Independent LIV (Nov. 6, 1902), 2634 38. This source could be used to show students the struggles of the workers as they were forming the unions that would help instill their safety.

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[] Poster promoting Pennsylvania, showing a man and a woman from a religious community and scenes depicting rural Pennsylvania = late 1800s

[] pictures of the US lumber industry

[] document on railroad riots - piligimg for food

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[] 1881 Portrait of Thomas Edison

**Learning Activity 4-D-1: Photographs and Posters**
== 1. [] picture - rolling logs into a river – This picture will give the students a feel of what life was like for people in Ridgway in 1880. 2. [] 1881 Portrait of Thomas Edison- This picture shows students what else was happening in the world in the 1880s. Picture shows 2 stills documenting Edison trying to sync sound to film. 3. [] patent for incandescent light bulb – this patent will show students what else was happening in 1880 when Ridgway was founded. 4. A) [] this photo shows how children helped with the logging industry.



4.B) [] this poster could be used along with the photo on the previous page to discuss how children helped shape the country and our town.

5. [] Although this poster is used to support WWI, it can be used in my class to spark discussion on why people decided to settle in Ridgway.

==  ﻿ Learning Activity 5-D-1: Local Audio and Music==

1. [] a series of classic American song-stories flowing from the bedrock of the American experience. Through these captivating songs, a tale is told of America "once upon a time

These songs will be used as listening examples where students could discuss the intrisic qualities of music that are present in each. They could also be used to discuss what life was like in the late 1800's because folksongs and ballads tend to tell a story.



[] America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets Something new starts every day. Sold wholesale and retail, by Leonard Deming

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3. [] - Edison's earliest recording of animal sounds - 1878 - examples of the earliest recordings that the students can compare to simple recordings they can make on their phones- quality difference

4. [] a conflict over land rights and infrastructure development arose in Northwestern Pennsylvania, over the construction of the Kinzua Dam -- a project designed to control flooding on the Alleghany River and provide cheap hydro electricity as well. Buffy Saint-Marie, an activist Cree singer-songwriter and musician, wrote several protest songs in the early 1960s specifically dealing with the loss of indigenous lands.

5. [] - another Scott Joplin rag that can be used to show the music of the times

==Learning Activity 6-D-1: Local Video and Maps==

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 * This topographic map can be used to show students how the Clarior river winds through Elk county before making its way to Ridgway. From there they can follow the path south toward Pittsburgh.**
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 * Documentary on Early Frankfort Logging Industry - This source will give the students a sense of what it was like to work in the logging industry at the turn of the century**

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This video contains many short examples of music from the late 1800s along with photos from the time period.

==3. [] 1872 railroad map of Pennsylvania. This source could be used to show the route the lumber would take out of Ridgway on therailroads==

4. [] This video shows how logs move down a raging river. The students could get a sense of how powerful the river can be.
==5. [] This video bibliography of Thomas Edison can be shown when discussing everything that was happening in 1880 when Ridgway was founded.==

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