DOCUMENT ANALYSIS

WORKSHEET: ANALYZE
A PHOTOGRAPH
Quickly scan
the photo.
What particular
features stick
out or what
did you notice
first?
 Type of Photo (Check all that apply):

Portrait ✓ Landscape Aerial/Satellite Action

Architectural ✓ Event Family Panoramic

Posed ✓ Candid Documentary Selfie

Other type (please specify): Black and White

 Is there a
caption/title?
Observe its Parts (List the people, objects and activities you see)

People Objects Activities

1. Filipinos 1. Riffle ammo 1.Walking/

2. Americans 2. Rusty clothes and Marching
3. Japanese military clothes 2. Carrying a corpse
4. US prisoners 3. Broken tire
4. Vintage soviet
military bottle
5. Hat
6. Military trunk
7. Belt
8. Branches
9. Watch
 TRY TO MAKE
SENSE OF IT
1. Who took the photo?
2. Where is it from?
3. When is it from?
4. What was happening at the
time in history this photo
was taken?
5. Why was it taken? (List
evidences from the photo or
your knowledge about the
photographer that led you
to your conclusion)
 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

1. What did you find out from

the document that you might
not learn anywhere else?
 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE

2. What other documents or

historical evidence are you going
to use to help you understand
the event or topic?
 Work of Art
An oil painting by Ben Steele depicts the Bataan
Death March during World War II

Steele was a survivor of the Bataan

Death March and 3 ½ years as a
Japanese prisoner of war during World
War II. Ben Steele’s original paintings
and drawings chronicle his prisoner of
war experience. Steele is one of
thousands of American soldiers
captured by the Japanese while
defending the Philippines.
 Museum - At Bullock Texas State History Museum
Berry survived the march and carved a poem, The Battling Bastards of
Bataan, into one side of his canteen

BATTLING BASTARDS OF BATAAN

Here’s to the battling
Bastards of Bataan
No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam
No aunts, no uncles
No cousins or nieces
Neither pills nor planes
Nor artillery pieces
And nobody gave a damn.
 Interviews
Written and Video interviews to the
Survivor of Bataan Death March
 Personal Letter
WWII letter sent to an American POW
in 1943 while being held captive by the
Japanese in the Philippines. Letter
was sent to Corporal Willard Rose of
the 192nd & 194th Tank Battalions by
his wife and baby girl back home in
Covington, Kentucky. Corporal Rose
was captured at Bataan and survived
the death march.
News paper by The Lincoln Star and
The Tribune