Gast Painting Lift Overlay

Gast 'American Progress' (1872) reproduction with critical-reading annotation overlay. Original John Gast painting (1872, oil on canvas, ~12x16 inches small commercial print circulated in 1870s—an actual primary source from the Manifest Destiny era, currently held by Autry Museum of the American West, used with educator-permission reproduction). The painting depicts a large female figure ('Columbia' personifying the United States) floating westward over the plains, carrying a school book and stringing telegraph wire, with settlers/farmers/railroad/stagecoach below her on the right, and Indigenous peoples + bison fleeing west into stormy darkness on the left. Annotation overlay (translucent layer the teacher can lift to reveal/hide) labels critical-reading questions on the painting: (1) Who is the central figure? Why is she SO LARGE? (2) Which direction is she moving? Why is east bright and west dark? (3) Who is shown moving WITH her (settlers, railroad)? (4) Who is shown moving AWAY from her (Indigenous peoples, bison)? (5) Is this a description of what was happening OR a CLAIM about what SHOULD happen? (6) WHOSE VOICE is missing from this painting? Style: high-resolution reproduction of original painting + lift-up annotation layer in clean pen-and-ink overlay.