In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And after several years of searching, he tracked down riis son and with much coercing got riis son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri
Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, of this exhibit and im the historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition, jacob riis revealing how the other half lives, is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that th
Films, television, radio broadcast and sound recordings. American history tv visited the facility to learn about the paper print collection. Films from the earliest era of Motion Pictures produced between 1894 and 1912. Createder prints were for copyright purposes that cannot be projected. They must be scanned one frame at a time in order to be copied. Is mike mashon head atthe moving image section the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. Campusry of the packard action begins in the late 1990s. Our benefactor David Packard was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house the collections and the preservation laboratories. There was a facility here in culpeper that would had gone up for sale. Use t
Conservation in culpeper, virginia, preserves access to the librarys vast collection of films, television, Radio Broadcasts and sound recordings. , American History tv visited the facility to learn about the paper print collection. Films from the earliest era of Motion Pictures produced between 1894 and 1912. Over 3000 paper prints were created for copyright purposes but cannot be projected. They must be scanned one frame at a time in order to be copied. My name is mike mashon head of the moving image section at the library congress, the home of the largest collection of video and the world. Within this building, they have not only the film, video and sound recording of the library, but we also have preservation laboratories that are dedicated to making sure that all of this material is available for future generations. The story of the packard campus actually begins in the late 1990s. Our benefactor David Packard was interested in creating a facility for the library that would house t
Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jacob riis, revealing how the other half lives. Next, on American History tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection