panel. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by tional captioning institute] >> interested in american istory tv, visit our website c-span.org/history. american and road to the white house rewind, lectures and more. this weekend on real america, the 1976 film, independence, which was commissioned by the national park service for philadelphia's independence visitor oys' center. here's a preview. >> it is now the idea of an

american society in which certain people should have a say in american society because they are defending the idea of a nuclear family, of a government that is not be holden to any special interest and advance that idea that we have talked algerfrom lincoln through onto the late 19th century, a middle-class idea, an idea that the government should not be responding to everybody, it should not be responding to the organized laborers that many newspapers and thirst are accusing trying to pervert merican society.

and when they become the ones who control it for their own interest. it's this moment of an articulated look at how women should participate in american society that we crystalize in century.19th >> all weekend american history utah.featuring provo, it is stationed throughout the world including brazil, england and south africa. hosted by our part nirs, we visited many sites showcasing this city's rich history. learn about it all weekend here

on american history tv. >> we are in the special collections. we collect utah history. we collect different parts of western americaa in utah, idaho, nevada and the first item i wanted to show was how the park ame to be. there was a man who prevailed on the government to go into this part of the country. in 1871, he took a government expedition in. he came in with an artist and came in with a photographer. and these men were able to put on paper and film what they saw. and so between his paintings and

jackson's photographs, which was one of the driving forces that enabled the legislation in 1872 to pass and grant signed the authorization in march of 1872 for the first national park, which was yellowstone. moran's ren dishon of water color of the canyon of t yellowstone. here's one of mammoth springs. then we have jackson's photograph of the lower fall. this is the 1871 print of his --

e of his pictures on glass plates, keep in mind that they had a glass plate. couldn't enlarge it. the plate was as large as the picture. they had to coat it and then expose it and then fix it and keep track of it. they were on mules and horses. the very essence it's a miracle we have any of them. a lot of the park was driven by how could i make money. we understand part of it was that railroads were making their move west and in order to fund and to make a business out of it, they had to have places they wanted to go. so the northern pacific railroad, which was going to be on through montana, which would

have been bozeman and on out to the pacific coast, they wanted to advertise and capitalize on the yellowstone park. and it was to their best interest to make it as alluring as possible. so they began to fund either blatantly or behind the scenes these hotels that were being built. they were funding these different corporations who were building these things to entice the public to have somewhere to go and save while they traveled through the park. along this time, there was a man amed f.j. haines working for the railroad as their photographer and he began to see , its lity of the park scenic value, both in scenery

and as a business. 1883, he made himself the park's official photographer and started coming in each summer to take photographs of the park and sell them as part of his business. but in 1887, f.j. was one of the first people to go into the park in the winter time and he took 42 glass plate pictures, but the photographs that he brought out were amazing. these were -- this is a picture by e group that was going the cliffs. here's a picture of the lower part of the basin. the winter of 1897. and what's interesting is that this shows -- this is the upper

geyser basin and shows people on skis moving through the snow. one of the best pictures i like is here -- this is the lower falls. if you look real close, you can see the ice dome that builds in ront of the falls as the spray comes down. as he was given the photographic concession, the concession contained -- he made a guide book and he sold his first guide book and it came out in 1896. this is his 1896 guide book. his an see where he used photographs. a lot of written word and different images. he had a map that was in the ack here and it had some

advertisement in the back which is the way they did things. they had the advertisement in the back of the book. he had an 1896 guide book. his is 1897, this is 1907, 1916, 1924. this is 1935. this is 1936. they made a change in the cover. and this was their last, 1966. as you look through this one, you can see how the maps changed . there was more maps. there was more concise pictures. he had flowers, he had birds. it was a complete guide book. these were meant to be kept. we have a complete set from 1896

to 1966. he company was sold by his daughter-in-law in 1969. along with the guide books, the park was used by the different railroad companies. there was the northern pacific. there was the union pacific. there was the burlington northern. these railroads came up to the edges of the park at different times. the first one was the northern pacific. and they started using the images of the park to advertise coming on their railroad, to come to the park. you got picked up by coaches and taken to the hotel and from the hotel, you would take a stagecoach ride around the park. these were five to seven day tours. and cost a whopping $55.

the first ones that came out were these. this was one of the earlier ones. this is 1913. the ones that were early, they were generic and didn't have visual appeal, it was just a brochure that had their time tables. this is the garden station, this is the northern entrance. this shows how the northern pacific would view. it would give you some idea of hat you were going to see. there's the divide. and they would give you what their i tin area was, what you would see in the park. they had very artistic renderings. here's old faithful and almost see -- the brush strokes are very apparent.

this is the burlington route and the northern pacific and had standard tours. usual -- what you were going to see, the lodges and some of the idea to perk your interest into wanting to do this. this one here is for children. they took the theme. they had coloring books. they were looking at all parts of the family. one of the interesting things about these travel possible terse is we see during this same time, it was the rise of middle class and diss possessable income. president taft puts an article in the "new york times" that says you should have two, three weeks off to rejuvinate yourself. --see the idea of this stuff

why this is going on. this helps us to understand who we are. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] > we traveled to proveo, utah. learn more about pr omp v omp, utah. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> i never felt the urge -- as i aid before, make money and admiring the contendies. >> sunday night, a two-part interview with former public interest lawyer, mark green. he talks about his life and

career in public office. thatu have to have a drive is indesirable in a spouse or a friend and wake up and go to sleep and say i want -- if you do everything, you win. >> part one airs sunday night 8:00 eastern and part two sunday night 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> this year marks the 240th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence, next, author john ferling discusses his book "independence, the struggle to set america free." those who sought reconciliation with great britain and those who pushed for independence. he labels them the