William Henry Powell Primary Sources

While analyzing this (Discovery of the Mississippi) and any source a historian should look at factors such as: The painter and their motives for painting, is the source fact, opinion, or propaganda, and the general purpose of this source. The painter’s name is William Henry Powell and his motives may have been to let others know how Powell saw this event and what happened in Powell's perspective. The source itself is a secondary source but it is a based on many primary sources, that is why it is fact. The general purpose of this source would have been to let others know how Powell saw this event. William Henry Powell was an american who was not influenced by the spanish at all. There is a big chance that his motives for making this painting