Estimated time to complete this section: 4 hours
Develop framing documents for two of the primary sources in your collection using the secondary sources in your bibliography. A framing document describes a source and the information it contains related to your question and uses the secondary sources in your bibliography to answer questions about the local, regional/national, and thematic contexts of that source. These documents will provide a resource to draw on when you develop and present an answer to your question in the next module. We’ve provided two examples. They’re annotated, so you can follow the ways we developed the framing documents, using both primary and secondary sources:
- Sample framing document for the project on Chinese businesses in Harlem in the 1920s & 1930s:
Land Book of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York: Vol. 1 (New York: G. W. Bromley, 1925), Plate 151 (8th Ave – Lenox Ave; 133rd Street – 139th Street) - Sample framing document 2:
Invitation, Ninth Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1872
Each framing document should explain how the source contributes to answering your research question.