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Puffed Wheat

Title: Photograph of Alexander Anderson
Type: Photograph
Date: March 1933
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: Alexander Anderson invented this cannon to make puffed grain for cereals.

Photograph of Alexander Anderson

Activities:

  1. What details in this photograph might give you some clues about the occupation of the man pictured?



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  2. What information does this photograph NOT provide for the researcher?



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  3. What might we guess about the man's age or social status from the photograph?



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  4. How might we try to learn about the man or his invention if we had no information about the photograph at all?



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