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Doesn't look like Cary!

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They have a small family living in a simple house build by rock and parents with their children. There is no neighbor nearby.

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This photo suggests that despite hardships in life, work must continue and you must keep moving forward.

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Life looked tough and difficult because of disease and natural disasters that were against them

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This photo shows the tremendous opportunity available for freed African Americans to start a new life.

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It shows that life was difficult on the plains because of the weather and materials available: people died because of the conditions in the plains.

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This document signals a sense of hope, and makes a life of freedom possible.

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This photo shows a family boasting about their impressive livestock, while also being ashamed of their house.

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For many people going to the west was a sign of hope and looking forward to better things in the future

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They were showing their piano and how big their farm is. They probably took the picture like that because to make their land look bigger then it actual it is.

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It’s interesting that they wanted their family to be almost jealous in a way of their success, so they moved the piano outside as a way to glamorize live in the plains

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Shows that life was a little challenging and that they did not have the best resources and they couldn't depend on the safety of their home

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This showed that life was very hard because a rainstorm had collapsed the sod roof and the mother of the family had already died while being there

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The family realized that life was not glamorous in the plains, but the found ways to portray that they were.

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The family didn't want to show their house because of the state it was in. They did however show their land, the horses they owned, and their piano they were proud of.

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life was difficult but no matter what people still had pride in themselves in all situations

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it shows that they went through alot of hardships but had to push through.

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It looks like the crops have improved in this picture, maybe this family is a little better off. Houses were very small, especially for two or three additional children to live in.

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I have noticed that a lot of these pictures are of families moving out together, including Photo A. Also, many of them have horses, wagons, and sod houses,

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Pictures were way different than they are now. It was so rare that they were taken, that the subjects would dress up for them. 

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They didn’t normally experience rain, but when they did, their homes were damaged since they were made of sod. Grass was a resource that was in great supply in the west, so the people used it.

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Shows life was difficult

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This photo suggests a new start and hopes for a better life

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They didn’t have access to have help healthcare, and sod wasn’t a very sturdy material so shelter was even hard to access

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Once African Americans were free, they took advantage of the new opportunity out west.

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They have a bigger house compare to document D. But between both Document D and B the house is a 1-floor building made of rock and lacks protection. The caption says the house was damaged due to the heavy rain.

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The African Americans that were once enslaved, now are free and able to own land and make a life for themselves.

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they wanted to show off their life to their relatives but did not want to show their state of their home and with that you can understand that they did not have a glamorous life

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This photo shows a difficult life, with a recent loss of life and not a very good home for a family

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Shows the danger of traveling to the west and how underprepared these people were.

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Cameras were definitely different than they are now. This image shows people squinting and looking down because they had to face the sun in order to get a good picture. Many families also had three children.

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they wanted to show what they have to show what they gain. At the sametime they don’t show their privacy.

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This shows how hard life was and how the houses made were not structurally sound.

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it appears that things such as music and such were important things to do after work and family was important. I also think they took pride in their work and did not want to show things such as their house in poor condition.

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Since the African Americans were free they moved to the great plains like many other freed slaves back then. one of them also has a dog in the chair instead of himself which is weird.

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People out west wanted to show off to the people they left behind. This image shows that they wanted to show off their piano, but didn’t want to show off how bad their house looked. If they did show what their house looked like, relatives back east wouldn’t be as impressed as they are with the current picture.

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The family in this photo wanted to show their family the tremendous opportunity available by showing off their livestock, but they didn't their house photographed because it would make it look like they are

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It shows people getting a new start to there lives.

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it appears that things such as music and such were important things to do after work and family was important. I also think they took pride in their work and did not want to show things such as their house in poor condition.

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They are dressed in their best clothes and seem to be making the most of life but you can see life was not easy

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This photo shows off the land rather than the home because of the state of the home, so the family is more fortunate with the land over the home.

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it looks like a lot of people rushed to the great plains to escape oppression and start a new life

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there is hope for families to own land, and have an individual business.

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it looks like a lot of people rushed to the great plains to escape oppression and start a new life

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Life for them was difficult since there were no trees in their vicinity so wood for construction was rare

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It shows the difference how picture are taken between now and then.

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Wood was very scarce so the families had to find different materials for their home like sod.

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African Americans had to try to make the most of their freedom

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Most of these homesteaders living in a sod house, they have livestock and horse. There is one thing I notice, most of them didn't live with other family or in a community.

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This photo suggests that they had little materials at this time so people made houses out of things they could find like sod.

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This photo suggests that the homesteaders lived a difficult life. They had to fight for survival because things like rain storms were hard to live through with their sod houses.

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This photo suggests that the homesteaders housing situation was very poor. People were ashamed of their houses and did not want others to see.