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Is a "Photograph album containing pictures of classmates at Tuskegee Institute in 1923" a primary source?

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If a certain person was in the photographed and showed you it, that would be considered a primary source because the person is showing you are photograph of him and his classmates. If the photograph is in a textbook or was shown by someone else talking about those classmates, then that would be considered a secondary source because they were passed down that image. I'm assuming you were shown this photograph in a textbook or by a teacher, so I'm willing to assume that the source would be secondary.

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