Dallas Sanders
January 13th 1848- May 27th 1907
Cemetery Project 2018-2019
Ebunoluwa Adebonojo, Ranim Albarkawi, Bernadette Fink, Frances Gardner, Kayla Gibson
and Madison Tyler
What is the Woodlands Cemetery Project?The Woodlands Cemetery Project is an infamous research project that is completed by the junior AP United States History students at J.R Masterman High School. It requires each group to select a person out of the many tombstones at the Woodlands Cemetery in West Philadelphia and conduct months of research on their selected person. The project requires that the subject chosen must be a male who lived during the Gilded Age, a period of rapid growth in the United States population and economy dating from approximately 1870 to 1900. Once a subject is chosen, students are instructed to search for primary source documents regarding their subject, analyze their discoveries and use them to create a biography for their chosen subject. Our group chose Dallas Sanders as our subject. Since our group consisted of six members, we were required to utilize at least 40 primary source documents regarding Dallas Sanders and his family when writing our biography. Transit permits, census data, housing records, newspaper clippings and death certificates from a variety of sources should be used to collect information on Dallas Sanders’ life and career. Documents were gathered from several historical societies and archives around Philadelphia. Secondary sources from websites, family trees and prior knowledge can also be used to build on the biography and give a complete outlook on the chosen subject and deepen their biography and understanding of the subject.
After the documents were collected, they were thoroughly analyzed and listed chronologically to create a timeline mapping out Dallas Sanders’ life. The timeline was pieced together through evidence and research and compiled into a biography that summarized the major events and happenings of his life. As a whole, this project strives to honor the life and legacy of Dallas Sanders while also helping anyone interested in learning more about him and/or the history of the time period during which he lived. |
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