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Organizing a collection of personal records can be an interesting way to learn more about the past while preserving this material for the future. Each item may have a story. Asking questions as you work can help you add notes and information that will allow people to understand more about the collection later on. Pretend you are helping an older person organize his or her records. You find a box with the following items in it:

A photograph of several young people in graduation caps and gowns, but no date or names.
A handwritten recipe that is blurred and stained; at the bottom, you can make out a note containing the letters Aun . . . M . . . Choc . . .
A roadmap of the United States with several locations circled in red and a red line tracing the routes between them; when you look closely you can see that the line does not include any major highways.
For each item, list three questions that ask who, what, why, when or where questions. There are no correct or incorrect questions to ask, but the more you work with primary sources, the more ways you will find of evaluating and analyzing them.