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
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 time laps video reco lapse video, next on American History tvs american artifacts we visit the Thomas Jefferson building to learn. This program is just under an hour. Im sheryl, heim an exhibit director at the library of congress. Im barbara bear. Im a historian in the manuscript division. This jacob riis is a copresentation with the 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 collection in the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully, because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and really that exhibit which was called jacob riis, revealing new yorks other half, was slightly difference. It looks at riis in a d
The sideline with the bay bridge in the background and some fog is coming and steve says it will be mostly sunny today with a little bit of morning fog the temperatures between the 60s near the coast and the 90s inland. Welcome to mornings on 2 guess what, disneyland has announced reopening plans, lots of disney people like me who love it there are happy although im not sure and the disney shopping district will open first pending state approval and the actual theme park will open july 17 which happens to be the 65th anniversary and they knew what they were doing and then the park capacity will be limited and there will be no parades are meet and greets with the characters or any of that. And they will open by the end of july. Would you feel comfortable feel comfortable going anyplace like that, even if you can cut would you . Ask me again in about three months and i dont know if were not quite ready for that step but i think if we start doing a lot of Little Things we may work our way
Its way, gasia. I agree, it could be cooler, but it is beginning, so we are going to take what we can get. Sfo was sunny about an hour ago is starting to get more fog. It is a low fog. 50s, 60s, the city is 65, so we are close. The records go way back, the record low, 47 back in 1901. Two systems, and when will move in over as tomorrow, which will help temperatures trend down today. By tomorrow there will be a huge drop, about 15 to 20 degrees for some. For the city, everyone is above the temperature trend, all right. Over to sell this time, sal, where do you want to start . We are looking at the san mateo bridge but also the bay bridge toll plaza, steve. To let you know, both of these things are doing very well. The bridge at san mateo looks good. And the fog bank you spoke of, steve, is definitely there in our picture as you can see. You can also see that traffic here is moving okay on interstate 880. Still looks sunny there. And if you get to the toll plaza, there is at least a 10 t