Today’s plate
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Five real photographs and prints out of the American record. For each one: what year was it made, and where was it taken? You’ll see how close you got, and what you were looking at.
Free, no login, nothing saved to a server. A new set of five every day.
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Read the frame like evidence — clothing, machinery, signage, the photographic process itself.
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Slide the year, drop a pin. Both halves score independently, out of 5,000 each.
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Every frame is a real public-domain source, credited — no illustrations, no stand-ins.
Developing…
149117502010
Where was it taken?
Click the map to drop your pin.
Daily plate
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This is one day of it.
The classroom version runs 132 rounds across all nine APUSH periods — with a unit-review mode, its own daily challenge, XP and ranks, a field notebook students fill as they discover plates, a class-period leaderboard, and every guess landing in your Google Sheet.