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
The tarmac there skies are generally going to clear as we work our way through this morning and as that happens more and more favorable weather for waiting in lines at the polls even this morning, although it is cool and gray for some areas still not at all about morning to get out there were in the 40s and 50s for most of us oakland, the warm spot right now at 57 degrees while the cooler side in areas like santa rosa starting off this morning at 45 degrees later today, its 70s and ill give you more details about what to expect. Later on still to come robin all right, thank you john a little busy out there traffic still jammed up crossing the bay, especially heading into San Francisco, heres a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza approach and yes, its still pretty crowded from the bottom of the maze. Its been like that for the last 2 hours or so its not a terrible commute, but its definitely crowded and still under 15 minutes to make it and so thats considered pretty good. Were check
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