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Issue with the spectrum and make it more usable in that kind of environment. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan2. Youre looking at a time lapse 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 danish born journalist and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director and office of the library of congress. Im barbara bair, the curator of this exhibit and im a historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. This exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with a museum of the ....
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 ....