{"id":598,"date":"2019-10-08T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T21:05:19","slug":"skill-assignment-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/image\/skill-assignment-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Skill Assignment 3!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The image that I selected was a photo of a woman hammering a nail into a board, in a sea of spectators, during a nail driving competition in 1939 (htt<\/a>p:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/cnd\/admin\/items\/show\/id\/164<\/a>). The first thing about the photo that caught my eye, was that the main focus of the image was a woman holding a hammer, surrounded primarily by other women. It struck me in particular since hard labor tasks that would involve tools (i.e. a hammer) would have been largely dominated by men during the 1930s. Reading more of the details concerning the photo, I was really intrigued to learn that it was documentation of a nail driving competition, which is essentially a contest to determine who is able to hammer a nail into a board as quickly and as completely as possible <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0The image was documented at a workers camp in Arvin, California. Work camps were meant to be temporary housing for people recruited to work on New Deal projects, so the idea of having fun events and competitions (such as this documented in the photo) in a place that may not have been the happiest environment, places an importance on the efforts undertaken, if not by the New Deal programs then by the workers themselves, to promote morale and positivity as much as they could. This image really drove me to the question, how did the New Deal really affect people\u2019s morale and outlook on the Great Depression? Were there any goals in the New Deal to promotive or help develop a positive mentality going forward, or was this a product of the people themselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            There\u2019s always a difference in analyzing an image that\u2019s in its original tangible state, versus analyzing one that\u2019s been digitized, but there\u2019s definitely something to be gained through digital analysis by being able to focus in on certain areas of the image, and being able to analyze how all the smaller parts of the photo form the whole story. Being able to go farther into a detailed look of the expressions, dress, stance, and position of everyone in the photo was a really interesting way to analyze this photo, and it allowed me to get a better feel for the overall emotion of the group in the photo. While having the physical photo is always beneficial, special attention to very specific detail can be done much more easily, or much more efficiently with a digital image. Drawing off of everyone\u2019s expression, man or woman, competitor or spectator, made the image come more alive, and brought a very positive feel to the aura of the image, and I concluded that while the economic barrier was somewhat broken by the federal New Deal, overcoming the barrier of the actual feeling of depression and hopelessness that had been spread by the Great Depression economic crash, was itself very much a product of the people. My exhibit hosts the original digital image, and a glitched version to pair, http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/cnd\/exhibits\/show\/camparvinactivity<\/a> . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliography:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLadies Nail Driving Contest.\u201d Grantoberfest. Accessed October 8, 2019. http:\/\/grantoberfest.com\/ladies-nail-driving-contest\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cNail Driving Competition.\u201d York Builders Association. Accessed October 8, 2019. https:\/\/yorkbuilders.com\/cool_timeline\/nail-driving-competition\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Hemmig, Robert. \u201cWoman Hammering a Nail into a Board with Spectators Looking On.\u201d The Library of Congress. Accessed October 8, 2019. https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/afc1985001.afc1985001_p017\/?r=-0.428,0.145,1.951,0.945,0.
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The image that I selected was a photo of a woman hammering a nail into a board, in a sea of spectators, during a nail driving competition in 1939 (http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/cnd\/admin\/items\/show\/id\/164). The first thing about the photo that caught my eye, was that the main focus of the image was a woman holding a hammer, surrounded … Continue reading “Skill Assignment 3!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}