Born journalist, social reformer and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, im an exhibit director and im an exhibit director at the library of congress. Im barbara bear, the curator of this exhibit and the manuscript. Its 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 photographs that are stellar collection at 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 different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way and sort of concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist because thats the strength of our collection. The papers here, whi
And Charitable Funds to open model lodging houses that would have showers or ways to bathe and ways to wash clothes and a real bed for people to sleep in and so on. On the side walls, we have paired the photograph attributed to riis with a Fire Insurance map from the paris and brown company. So each Panel Features one of these maps that locates where this photograph was or probably was taken. These maps date from 1880. Theyre block by block. What if you can see, if you are an insurer, is what the Building Material is made of. So yellow indicates that is a wooden structure. Pink is brick. Green indicates there is some sort of Fire Insurance hazard whether it be because of what goes on in that building or Building Materials, but you can see where the Police Station is. The eldridge street station is in the lower right quadrant or the lower right portion of the map. And also, this illustrates what riis was railing against which is that there was no light, no sort of air circulation in the
Good to be with you. Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. This morning, at least ten people are in Critical Condition following a deadly mass shooting in kansas. Three people were killed and 14 more wounded. Police say the gunman identified as cedric ford shows his victims at random. The shootings took place across two towns about 35 miles north of wichita. The victims were hit by gunfire at two separate locations. 150 people were at work at excel plant. Hanna davis of our wichita affiliate is there. Reporter meg, this morning, Law Enforcement official are calling this an active workplace violence. They say cedric ford woo a parent at excel industries and this is where all of the fatalities occurred but it business. Fear and a woman who reunites with her husband who worked inside the plant. Employees are familiar with the gunman. Their coworker cedric ford often posted pictures of himself on facebook at work. He was a nice guy. When i worked with him on my second shift, we hung out. E
Particular, where Reed Hastings has to answer questions about new competition from amazon. Amazon announcing it will offer prime video as a Standalone Service for 8. 99 a month. Before this the only way to get Amazon Prime Video was with an amazon prime membership for 99 a year. Lets talk earnings first, because there seem to be this rotation into the ibms and intels of the world, what we have been calling gray chips, some of the formerly out of favor value names. What is the proposition for growth for these companies . I wouldnt call ibm a value name. When Warren Buffett bought Burlington Northern he was making a bet on the American Economy. We knew i. T. Spending was going to go down, ibm trying to refashion as a cognitive play. How much does that play into the messaging it gives to investors . A lot of people have been saying they are struggling because of the cloud and all this kind of different names of whats happening. Really, whats happening is ibm is not able to compete with th
Trump than ted cruz. Host you will be made to care t war on faith, the reason to believe. Guest thank you, i appreciate it. Usually authors sharing new releases. Best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subject. They bring author after author. I love book tv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, im brad, defense and foreign studies at the Cato Institute. The question of intervention, John Stuart Mill and the responsibility to protect. For those of you on twitter, you can live tweet this event using cato events. I would like to thank our event staff here at cato who has done so much work behind the scenes to make this happen. Now, the question of intervention is as important now than it has been, 25 years ago many observers anticipated that the end of the cold war, perhaps a new era of peace and stability and since then, however, the United States has intervened militarily in the succession of foreign