Visits museums and historic places. Founded in 1923, the museum of the city of new yorks collection contains nearly 750,000 objects. We visited to learn about the exhibit, gilded new york. I am one of the cocurators of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like the dot com people of our era. In those days, the money came from various industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. All of those businesses yielded enormous wealth at the same time there was mass immigration, a time when new york was unified by all of its boroughs and the total population was over 3.
Of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like the. Com people of our own era. Dot com people of our era. In those days, the money came from various industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. All of those businesses yielded enormous wealth at the same time there was mass immigration, a time when new york was unified by all of its boroughs and the total population was over 3. 5 million people. With that mixture of people, the lower classes, the rising upper class, there was this desire to set oneself apart from the teeming masses. And so, this. 1 of people deci
Come visit us and we can tell you the story of texas. We can tell you about Texas History and be able to share our wonderful Texas Capital with you. Find out where cspans local content vehicles are going next, online at cspan. Org local content. You are watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Each week american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Founded in 1923, the museum of the city of new yorks collection contains nearly 750,000 objects. We visited to learn about the exhibit, gilded new york. I am one of the cocurators of gilded new york, being shown at the museum of the city of new york. The show opened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. In this beautiful jewel box of a gallery, we have assembled a variety of objects that help the public to appreciate what life was like for the 1 in the original gilded age that followed the civil war from the 1880s through about 1910. That period was characterized by great wealth. Kind of like
And then lost contact with him at 1 30. They told him he wanted to go to the beach and they told him not to. Reporter he has not been seen or heard from since. His family is there, we have a report at uc berkeley and we will have reaction coming up at 6 30. Bad weather is blamed for the canada plane making a hard landing, two dozen people were hurt when the plane skidded off of the run way. He talked to the passengers. Reporter the rough landing damaged the nose and buckled the wings. Snow was falling hard just after midnight. The pilots were telling us that the conditions of the land were not good. So, they left us flying around here for over half an hour. And, until they found a hole to get us to come in and land in on. Reporter when the plane got clear apse the passenger say it hit the power line on the way down and landed hard and skidded off of the runway. Clearance the passenger say it hit the power line on the way down and landed hard on the skidded off of the runway. We bounced
The family of a missing cal student is offering a 50,000 reward for information about his whereabouts. Police say 19yearold eloi vasquez from san rafael was last seen at a fraternity parly near usc last saturday. At 1 30 a. M. He told his friends he was going to walk to the beach and at 2 00 a. M. He called a friend for help. He was like i need your help. Please come here. He said im in l. A. And mellows. No one has been able to reach vasquez on the cell phone since that time and his mother says its out of character for him to be out of touch for this long. Vasquez is a 19yearold freshman who plays for the cal soccer tap. A powerful earthquake caused a tsunami near the epicenter but no major damage to report. It had aing in may to do magnitude 7. 7. Centered about 30 miles southeast of papua new guinea. Shaking and tremors lasted for about five minutes. A tsunami of more than half a foot was measured in a harbor close to the epicenter. But it was much smaller elsewhere. The Pacific Tsu