which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] tv is onan history social media. toure c-span cities travels the country, exploring the american story. since 2011, we have been to more than 200 communities across the nation. our staff is staying close to home because of the coronavirus. here is a look at one of our visits. >> we all know that our grandmother loved taking pictures. we saw the scrapbook she would keep of pictures of all of us. i didn't realize how much she kept from her entire life until i was starting research for my book and i was able to go down to college station and they have the archives there. my co-author and i would walk in and

mary finch who works at the library was like, where do you want to start? she opens the door and it is millions of different scrapbooks. we only have a day and a half. we started in her scrapbook. my grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. >> while at the george h.w. bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks, containing mementos from their life together. >> we are here in the research room. we are going to take a look at 120, 130 scrapbooks that mrs. bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. she was an avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. this one is from 1944 and 1945 i believe.

mrs. bush's granddaughter was doing a book on the president and mrs. bush's love story. and she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. one of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. she has the guests that were there and what kind of funny is she even has the one guest who couldn't come because he got sick. this is the kind of stuff she kept. pictures of him. baseball scorecards. she annotated it all in her own handwriting. she was so much in love with him that she wanted to document their life together. the children, the grandchildren as time went on.

stopped thet, she scrapbooks. but then she had a digital camera and she would send us digital photos and all the backup with the photos. they were not exactly in the scrapbooks. if she was at a dinner, she would take a lot of pictures and send us the invitation and the program, the menu from the dinner. at some point, i think someone said that from an archival standpoint, gluing the pictures in the scrapbooks wasn't the greatest idea. once they are glued in, it is hard to get them out for preservation purposes. they are a great resource. we did the museum about 12 years ago because we discovered all these great artifacts and we said, we've got to use them. i told ms. bush, thanks for the scrapbooks. we are going to put this stuff

in the museum. a lot of the photos and stories are from her scrapbooks. she's a big part of the museum >> you can watch this and other programs on the history of committees across the country at c-span.org/cities tour. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. >> in 1939, eastman kodak company gave newly released kodachrome color film to photographers working for the u.s. government. american history tv visited the library of congress and beverly brannan to learn about the collection of color images documenting agricultural life and war production during the great depression and world war ii. beverly: in the 1930's, the united states experienced an economic depression and an agricultural disaster.