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How can you tell that the picture of the Virginia settler is a secondary source?

How can you tell that the picture of the Virginia settler is a secondary source?-example-1
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You can tell that it was a second source because its is from the past and how he is cleaning the sword and how the background looks like.

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It's a secondary source because he has a sword and people back in the day used swords and not guns. Also if you analyze the background it looks old fashioned.
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