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Captain John L. Anderson Document Analysis Instructions (2 image analysis and 2 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 How many steamboats? Anderson Steamboat Co. Ferry Schedule How many sailings? How many places does it travel? What does this document say about the Lake Washington steamboat business? What does this document say about the people who used the steamboats? What does this document say about transportation in general? Document 2 Complete image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Anderson Shipyards 1908 Document 3 Complete image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Anderson Shipyards 1917 Document 4 Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer News article from Lake Washing- ton Reflector 1918 Document 5 Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer News article from East Side Jour- nal 1919 How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Captain Anderson? Positive Negative Ferry Fay Burrows Document Analysis Instructions (2 image analysis and 3 SOAPS document analysis tools) Documents Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. Why did Captain Burrows start a boat house? Oral History of Homer Venishnick Grandson of Ferry Burrows 2. How did he make money with the steam boat? 3. What fueled this ship? 4. What routes did Capt. Burrows take the steamboat to earn money? 5. What happened to the steamboat business when the lake was lowered? 6. What happened to North Renton when the lake was lowered? Document 2 1. What does “driving rafts” mean and how long did it take? Interview with Martha Burrows Hayes 2. Why did Mrs. Hayes have to keep her little children on chairs in March? 3. What did lowering of the lake do to their resort business? Document 3 Complete Image Analysis form Photograph of the Burrows Resort 1910 Document 4 Complete Image Analysis form Photograph of the Black River 1916 Document 5 1. Read the occupations column. What types of jobs were there in the Renton 1920 U.S. Federal Census for area? Renton 2. What do these jobs say about the social and economic life of the Renton area? How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Ferry Fay Burrows? Positive Negative William Crooker Document Analysis Instructions (1 image analysis and 3 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. What geographic features do you see on this survey drawing? King County Survey of Hewitt- Lea Mill 1909 2. What modes of transportation do you see on this survey? 3. Why would a sawmill be located right next to the Mercer Slough? 4. How would draining the Mercer Slough impact Hewitt-Lea sawmill’s opera- tions? Document 2 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer New article from Lake Washington Reflector March 1920 2. How do you think the Mr. Crooker and the Hewitt-Lea Mill felt about this article? Document 3 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer News article from Lake Washing- ton Reflector April 1920 2. According to this article, what did Mr. Crooker do when new land opened up when the Mercer Slough had been drained? Document 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Court case testimony: Hewitt-Lea Lumber vs. King County 1919 2. What does this testimony say about the geography in and around the slough before it was drained? Document 5 1. Complete Image Analysis form Photograph of farmhouse on Mer- cer Slough 1922 2. This picture was taken in 1922, after the slough had been lowered. This land was covered by water previously. What uses will this land likely have since the geography changed? How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact William Crooker? Positive Negative Walter King Curtis Document Analysis Instructions (1 TP-CASTT, 2 image analysis and 1 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. What do we learn about how Captain Curtis used the Black River to get to News article from On the Ways Puget Sound in the spring? 1942 2. What did the high water in the Cedar River cause the Black River to do? Document 2 1. Complete a TP-CASTT A Nautical Poem 1907 Appeared in Kirkland-Redmond Sun newspaper Document 3 1. Complete an image analysis graphic organizer Postcard of steamer ferry Urania 1909 2. For what reasons would someone create a postcard of this steamer ferry? Document 4 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer News article from Lake Washing- ton Reflector 1918 2. By the fact that this information was published in a local newspaper, what do we learn about the role ships, ferries and other transportation played on Lake Washington and in the lives of the community? Document 5 1. Complete Image Analysis form Photo of ferry Leschi 1918 2. Compare the background of this image with the one from the postcard of the Urania. What differences do you notice? How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Walter King Curtis? Positive Negative Fred J. Eitel Document Analysis Instructions (4 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. Complete a SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Court document – Release of Damages 1906 2. The Bellevue Land Company – a real estate company- releases (forgives) the United States of America from damages which may occur at the time of the lowering of the lake. Why would they do this in 1906 when they don’t really know what damages might occur? Look at the before and after contour lines on the Lake Washington map to draw your conclusion. Document 2 1. This document was created in 1907 showing how many lots the neighborhood of Lochleven contained. What do you think will change on this plat record Plat of Lochleven once Lake Washington is lowered? Document 3 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Brochure for Bellevue real estate 1912 2. How much land will be gained by the Bellevue Land Company because of the ship canal being built? 3. How would a brochure like this entice Seattle residents to move to Bellevue? Document 4 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Brochure for Lochleven 1918 2. What amenities (special features) would draw people to the Lochleven neigh- borhood according to this brochure? Document 5 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Newspaper Excerpt 1919 2. By 1919, what has happened to the formerly empty lots of Lochleven? 3. Why do you think this information was published in the newspaper? How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Fred J. Eitel? Positive Negative Bert Farrar Document Analysis Instructions (1 image analysis and 4 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. Complete a SOAPS analysis document graphic organizer Articles of Incorporation 1909 A document filed with the state by 2. What vision do you think Burke and Farrar have for their business? the founders describing the place and purpose of the business. Document 2 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer for the text of this Advertisement from East Side document News 1912 2. Examine the image on this document. What do you think was the artist’s intent when he/she drew this map? 3. What do all the lines leading out of the canal represent? Document 3 1. Complete an image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Seattle ferry dock at Leschi Park 1914 Document 4 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Editorial from East Side Journal 1919 2. According to this writer, how important are Burke and Farrar’s land company to the continued growth of Kirkland? Document 5 1. Complete a SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Advertisement from East Side Journal 1919 How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Bert Far- rar? Positive Negative Alicia Hanratty Forbes Document Analysis Instructions (3 image analysis and 1 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. What physical changes occurred to the Forbes property as a result of the low- Excerpts from biography of Alicia ering of Lake Washington? Forbes 2. How did this change affect the Forbes’ livelihood? Document 2 1. Complete SOAPS document analysis graphic organizer Excerpts from oral history of Dor- ris Forbes Beecher 1978 Document 3 1. Complete image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Juanita Beach 1914 Document 4 1. Complete image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Juanita Beach 1920 Document 5 1. Complete image analysis graphic organizer Photograph of Juanita Beach Re- sort 1925 2. Use the information from all three image analyses to describe the human and physical changes in Juanita Beach between 1914 and 1925. How did the lowering of Lake Summarize all of the evidence you found in the documents. Washington impact Alicia Han- ratty Forbes? Positive Negative William H. Hewitt Document Analysis Instructions (1 image analysis and 2 SOAPS document analysis tools) Document Instructions Biography Read aloud, highlight significant information (who, what, when, and where) Document 1 1. Complete an image analysis graphic organizer Advertisement for Hewitt-Lea Lumber company 1905 Document 2 1. What geographic features do you see on this survey drawing? King County survey of Hewitt-Lea Mill site 1909 2.