Understanding History and Society through Images, 1776-1914

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.01.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Unit Overview
  4. Background and Content Objectives
  5. The Role of Artwork and Primary Documents
  6. Instructional Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Resources
  9. Appendix
  10. Bibliography
  11. Notes

Power and the Machine: A Visual Examination of Class and Gender through the Industrial Revolution

William Miles Greene

Published September 2014

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Internet Resources

The Critical Thinking Community, The Foundation for Critical Thinking

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-role-of-socratic-questioning-in-thinking-teaching-learning/522

Fordham University, Modern History Sourcebook, Industrial Revolution

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.asp

Teaching History.org, Four Reads: Learning to Read Primary Documents

http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/25690

Paintings, Prints and Photographs

See above section titled "Questioning Artwork" for a questioning model being applied to some of the paintings and prints listed below.

  • Joseph Write of Derby, An Iron Forge, 1772, Tate Britain Museum
  • Phillip James deLoutherbourg, Coalbrookedale by Night, 1801, Science Museum London
  • William James Muller, Forging the Anchor, 1833, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
  • Adolph Menzel, The Iron Rolling Mill, 1872, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
  • John Ferguson Meir, The Gun Foundry, 1866, Putnam Country History Society
  • Thomas Allom, Powerloom Weaving, 1835
  • William Orpen, The Wash House, 1905, Studio International
  • Samuel Melton Fisher, Clerkenwell Flower Makers, 1896, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarena
  • R. Barnes, Making Artificial Flowers, 1889, Peter Jackson Collection
  • Cyrus Cuneo, The Cotton Lock Out: A War of Women
  • Making Creams, Fry's Cocoa Advertisement, Illustrated London News, March 22, 1984

Readings for Students

See section titled "Primary Documents" for annotated descriptions of each source.

  • Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls
  • Andrew Ure: The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835
  • Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794
  • Gaskell, P., The Manufacturing Population of England. The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers, 1833, London
  • Chadwick, Edwin, Report from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitation
  • Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842, London

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