Look at this stuff, at Pillar Post. Could your students do something like this for your town?
image by Bu Yourself, at Pillar Post
Students would have to find the old photos at the library, or at your local historical association or museum. Most of your students already have the electronic photo equipment though . . .
Just an idea.
Resources, and more:
- Angular Unconformities dipped into the underlying Flickr photos — nice shot
- At the SMU-hosted 11th Legacies Dallas History Conference denizens of the 7th floor of the Dallas Public Library were out in force, with hundreds of historic photographs for sale. DPL has thousands of these photos, with searchable, sometimes on-line databases. Photographs are searchable online, with sales online also possible. They have many more photographs not-yet-digitized, at the downtown branch.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 
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