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INQUIRY 1 - IMAGE INSPECTOR

GRAPHICS Mystery Image (center) and other works by Jacob Lawrence. Click picture above for printable page.
Letter from Jacob Lawrence to Kenneth Hopkins of the State Capital Museum. Click the picture to the left to download letters for background information.

BOOKS
	*Jacob Lawrence, American Painter* Ellen Harkins Wheat. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
	*Jacob Lawrence: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists* Mike Venezia. Children's Press, 2000.
	*Washington: Art of the State* Nancy Friedman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

INQUIRY 2 - MAPPING A MYSTERY
BOOKS
	*From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler* E. L. Konigsburg. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1998.

INQUIRY 3 - SEARCHING FOR TOOLS CLUES Mystery Image (center) and other works by Ronald D. Ginther. Click picture above for printable page.
BOOKS
	*The 20th Century: An Illustrated History of Our Lives and Times* (New edition replaces Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century) Lorraine Glennon (Ed.). Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1995.
	*In the Presence of the Past* Stephen Most. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1996.
	*Washington: Art of the State* Nancy Friedman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

INQUIRY 4 - EYING THE ELEMENTS
GRAPHICS Thumbnails of "lost art." Click image above for printable graphics.
BOOKS
	*Washington: Art of the State* Nancy Friedman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
	*Teaching Art with Books Kids Love* Darcie Clark Frohardt. Fulcrum, 1999.
	*The Art Pack/a Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour Through the Creation of Art over the Centuries: What Artists Do, How They Do It, and the Masterpieces* Christoper Frayling, Helen Frayling, Ron Van Der Meer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
	*Design Through Discover: AN Introduction to Art and Design* Marjorie Elliott Bevlin. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1984.
	*WSHM Field Guide to the Hall of Washington History (2nd Edition)* Washington State Historical Society. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 2001.
	*In the Presence of the Past* Stephen Most. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1996.

INQUIRY 5 - ARTWAYS TO THE PAST
BOOKS
	*Washington: Art of the State* Nancy Friedman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
	*In the Presence of the Past* Stephen Most. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1996.
	*Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions* Richard Platt. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1994.

INQUIRY 6 - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
BOOKS
	*History Lab To Go - Experiments with the Concepts & Tools of the History Trade* Book and CD-ROM - Available after October 31st, 2002. Stephanie Lile. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 2002.
MUSIC
	*Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition* Evgeny Kissin. RCA - #63884, 2002.
	*Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition* FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS Elena Kusschnerova. ORFEO: Germany, 2002.

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