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
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Jacob riis revealing how the other half lives. Next on American History tvs artifacts, we learn about the life of the danish born journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. I am a curator of this exhibit. I am a historian. Jacob riis was born in 1849 in denmark. He was the son of a schoolteacher and was basically raised in this very beautiful small town in denmark. He was a rebellious youth and even though he was the son of a teacher, he was not a good student although he loved to read. He played hooky a lot and when he was in new york, he had a lot of sympathy for truant young boys. A lot of his articles are about truancy and how we can get kids into school. He wrote from personal experience. A lot of what he wrote about he did have personal experience because he was an immigrant to the United States. When he was 21 years old, in 1870, he came to the United States by himself. He had a very hard time initially here finding work. He did all kinds