We also have the collection of david valdez, he was george w. Bushs white house photographer. And we have diana walker, a Time Magazine photographer for 20 years. She is known for her work covering hillary clinton. She covered the Clinton White house really broadly and deeply. She also cover the Reagan Administration and george h. W. Bush. David valdez and diana walker are actively involved in our program. They both belong to our advisory council. What you hope viewers will take away . The importance of photojournalists and new documentary news documentarians. The value of their work, not only for the news but also as historical evidence. These photographs capture and document an amazing array of extremely important processes and event and personalities. I hope the public appreciates the work that they do. They see their work every day on television and newspapers and so forth, and i hope they will not only appreciate the work that the photographers themselves. Thanks for joining us. Y
Each week, american artifacts takes viewers into historic sites, archives, and museums across the country. Up next, we visit the National Constitution center in philadelphia to learn about the creation of the u. S. Constitution in 1787 and to see several early drafts. Jeffrey welcome to the Constitution Center. I am jeffrey rosen. This is the only institution in america charted by congress. I am so excited to show you a new gallery we have opened. American treasures, which contain the five rarest early drafts of the u. S. Constitution. Not even at the Constitutional Convention were these five drafts displayed in the same place. Now thanks to the Great Partnership of the Historical Society of pennsylvania and David Rubenstein, we have been able to open this gallery and display the stress together these drafts together, and tell the story of the evolution of the text of the constitution into the draft that was ratified in 1787. It is so exciting. I cannot wait to show it to you. Lets go
American history at the university of texas at austin. One of the things we want to find out is how your career began. I know your father was the chief photographer for the philadelphia inquirer, but that does not mean that you would become a photographer. It started with the photographers at the philadelphia inquirer. I used to go back and harass them and then end up upside down. In the print barrel [laughter] i just was enamored with what they did in the business. Justther passed away before my 15th birthday. But i knew what i wanted to do the rest of my life. And i did not know how i was going to do it, but i was on a mission to try to have gone hook on to the news media somehow and become a part of photojournalism. And i was lucky enough to do that. I got out of the marine corps and i had applied at upi news pictures. As the boss said to me in new york, we got so tired of getting letters from you to have a job that we decided to stop the letters and hire you. I ended up coming to a
Also was the largest employer during his lifetime. When he died he was still operating his brewery, he was the oldest brewer in the world at that time. We are standing at his Dupont Circle mansion which was really his i have arrived statement after he made it in america and felt up his brewery power. This was built between 1892 and 1894. It was a technological innovation of its time. He lived here with his family until he died in 1945 and his wife died in 1956. Heurich is an american story and he is an important story in washington, d. C. History that has been lost over time. In washington we are used to focusing on federal government and whats going on in congress and our culture is focused on the smithsonians. They are histories that have been lost over time, people who built up the city. There are people who have lived here for generations and this is their story and where they came from. We are going to show you around the house today, it is one of the most intact Historic Houses i
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