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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, o ....
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us despite a rapid rise in cases in September Indias daily case count is now plummeting and the government claims the country with the 2nd highest number of cases after the u. S. Is now past its peak but the Holiday Season that leads up to devalue has now taken off and Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has appealed to people to continue taking precautions during it but will they listen believe finds out in delhi. Mob the Mohan Bhagwat stooge forced watching her father perform and then joining him at the age of 14 every year for over a decade. Magdy has participated in this Festive Season production of th ....
Once a street on the air or a park is played in the kremlin mainstream movie. Hello im kristie wonder its good to have your Company Nigerian authorities have given little acknowledgment to reports of the military killing at least 12 peaceful demonstrators earlier this week in his 1st comments on the embrace president mohammed didnt mention the shootings that sparked International Outrage instead he warned protesters against being used by subversive intimates. Oh the sound of rapid gunfire still rings in the is of many nigerians and more and more footage of tuesday night shootings is becoming public. Since then tempus have been conned gunfire rang out again in nigerias biggest city on thursday a prison was set ablaze and police stations were attacked elsewhere angry crowds who looted shops and cities across the country. In his 1st comments on the current unrest the pr ....
By emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look across the history of this nation, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. In many ways that much more how ourly embodies relationship with immigration has been in the United States. One of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would pass in the years after that increa ....