like 5 x 9 and this shows you a recent edition you can see how it's even called out on the cover a jacob riis classic. interestingly of the t photograph on the front is not by riis. [ laughter ] but it's a good picture of tenements. the library of congress owns the bulk of riis's archive which includes notes, manuscripts, off prints of articles, annotated scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, family letters, expense books and much more and to give you some idea, this is the first page of a small scrapbook in which riis collected the press comments on his very first lecture. it read here "press comments on the lecture "the other half, how it lives and dies in new york illustrated with 100 photographic views by jacob a. riis delivered for the first time january 25, 1888 before the american photographers' association at 122 west 36th street new york." so this gives you a sense of how aware he was of keeping track of his careers in posterity. the current exhibition, which opened last fall in new york as amy said and will travel this fall to denmark which is riis's native country brings together the

like 5 x 9 and this shows you a recent edition you can see how it's even called out on the cover a jacob riis classic. interestingly of the t photograph on the front is not by riis. [ laughter ] but it's a good picture of tenements. the library of congress owns the bulk of riis's archive which includes notes, manuscripts, off prints of articles, annotated scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, family letters, expense books and much more and to give you some idea, this is the first page of a small scrapbook in which riis collected the press comments on his very first lecture. it read here "press comments on the lecture "the other half, how it lives and dies in new york illustrated with 100 photographic views by jacob a. riis delivered for the first time january 25, 1888 before the american photographers' association at 122 west 36th street new york. so this gives you a sense of how aware he was of keeping track of his careers if posterity. the current exhibition, which opened last fall in new york as amy said and will travel this fall to denmark which is riis's native country brings together the m

you can see how it's even called out on the cover, a jacob riis classic. interestingly, the photograph on the front is not by riis. but it's a picture of tenements. the library of congress owns the bulk of riis' archive, which includes notes, manuscripts, an oitated notebooks, family let r letters, expense books and much more. again, to give you some idea, this is the first page of a small scrapbook in which riis collected the press comments on his very first lecture. it reads here, press comments on the lecture, the other half, how it lives and dies in new york. illustrated with 100 photographic views by jacob a. riis. delivered for the first time, january 25th, 1888, before the american photographers association alt 122 west 36th street, new york. this gives you a sense of how -- how aware he was of keeping track of his career for posterity. the current exhibition, which opened last fall in new york, will travel this fall to denmark, which is riis' native country, brings together the museum's photographs and the library's archive for the very first time.

a recent edition. you can see how it's called out on the cover. jacob riis classic. it's a good picture. the library of congress owns the bulk of riis's archive which includes manuscripts scrapbooks family letters and much more. to give you some idea. this is the first page of small scrapbook in which riis collected the press comment on his first lecture. it reads here, press comments on a lecture, the other half how it lives and dies in new york, illustrate 100 photographs. this gives you a sense of how aware he was of keeping track of his career for prosperity. the current exhibition which opened last fall in new york will travel this fall to denmark, which is riis's native country. brings together the mutual photograph and the archive for the first time. the show takes a different form. each offers rich portrait of riis and his legacy. i first encountered his photograph in 1987. when i took a job at the museum at the city of new york. vicinity a professional journalist not a professional photographer. he is considered one of the great pioneers in the history of the medium. this is a pu

and, it actually was a very, very hard time for jacob riis when he first came. he had a lot of difficulties making a living, finding work. he was unable to find steady work. he worked a lot of odd jobs. and he got very depressed. and one of the other things we're showing from the new york public library is a wonderful early diary of his that's written partly in danish and then he switches to english but in the diary it is about his loneliness when he first came here and his pining for his love elizabeth which was at that point unrequited. she was back in denmark. and his really -- his suicidal feelings, so it was very difficult in the beginning. and there's a great love story with riis and his wife elizabeth, eventually she does succumb to his courtship and they marry in 1876 in denmark. and come back and they settle first in brooklyn and then in richmond hill up in queens, new york, and have a family. so a lot of jacob riis' motivation in life is that everyone should have a healthy, safe and happy family like he does. and he writes a lot about families and the w

jacob riis's journalism office. the door roosevelt was artie aware of him. said it and jacob rees knew in the moment i saw him, they merely formed a bond. they went about at night on these nightly raids so that riis could familiarize roosevelt with the neighborhood. he showed them some of the things that were happening in tenements and checked up on what policemen were doing. the issue of using police lodging houses as homeless shelters. riis had a personal reason for having a grudge about police dredging houses. -- lodging houses. when he was a young immigrant, he sometimes stayed overnight in these homeless shelters. he tells a story in his a night when he was in particular despair where he had considered throwing himself into the east river and he was befriended by a stray dog. the dog was his buddy, his only friend. that night, he went to stay at a lodging house, they would not let the dog and the dog was waiting for him outside. a precious golden locket that he had brought with him to america that had a picture of his beloved elizabeth was stolen t from him. the policeman on duty did not believe him. why would this but have a

including bernese abbot, changing new york, alfred stieglitz new york and a co-author with daniel citron of rediscovering jacob riis. she's also written books on the clarence h. white school of photography and esther bubbly among other subjects. and of course bonnie wrote the book we are here for today, jacob a. riis, revealing new york's other half. when bonnie first began working on riis more than two decades ago, riis was remembered primarily as a photographer and her subsequent scholarship has provided by a much fuller picture of riis as an immigrant who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, a journalist and author and social reformer who considered photographs nothing more than a tool to spread his message. by seeing this fuller picture of riis and reading his articles, books, lectures and personal papers housed here at the library we can better understand the issues that new york's other half actually faced -- poverty, poor housing conditions, child labor, lack of access to education, homelessness and disease. most if not all of these issues are still with us today in one form or another which makes riis's wor

bonny is also the thauthor of my books, including changing new york, and a co-author of rediscovering jacob riis. she's written books on esther bubbly among other subjects. of course, bonny wrote the book we're all here for today. jacob a. riis. when she first began working many decades ago. riis was remembered as photographer. she has provided a much fuller picture of riis. journalist, author and social reformer who considered photographic as tool. by seeing the fuller picture, and by reading his articles, books lectures and the personal papers that are housed here at the library, we can better understand the issues that new york's other half actually faced. poverty, poor housing conditions, child labor, lack of access to education, homelessness, and disease. most if not all of these issues are still with us today in one form or another. which makes riis's work and bonny's more relevant than other. as an editor i have worked with a lot of different authors, since i have the stage, i want to take the opportunity to say what an absolute pleasure it was to work with bonny. and how much

they're repositioning riis more as he saw himself, as a communicator. >> the >> chicks jacob riis revealing how the other half lived can be viewed online. >>> the hard fought 2016 primary season is over. with historic conventions to follow this summer. >> colorado. >> florida. >> texas. >> ohio. >> watch c-span as the delegates consider the nomination of the first woman ever to head a major political party. and the first nonpolitician in several decades. watch live on c-span. listen on the c-span radio app. or get video on demand at c-span.org. you have a front row seat to every minute all beginning on monday july 18th. >>> coming up next on american history tv, we talk about tudor place and the descendants of george and martha washington. he discusses the collection of artifacts at tutor place. the daughters of the american revolution museum host this 45 minute event. >> our current exhibit is remembering the american revolution. is looking at the ways that people say things. what people saved to remember the american revolution, why they save them. what things grew out of that tradition.

jacob riis was born in 1849 in denmark. he was the son of a school teacher and was raised in this beautiful small town in denmark. he was a rebellious youth. even though he was the son of a teacher, he was not a good student, although he loved to read. the played hooky a lot. later when he was in new york, he had a lot of sympathy for truth boys -- turant boys. a lot of his articles about -- are about truancy and he spoke from personal expense. what he wrote about, he did have personal experience because he was an immigrant to the united states. when he was 21 in 1870, he came to the united states by himself and he had a hard time initially here finding work. he did all kinds of odd jobs, worked as a laborer, is a door-to-door salesman, was sometimes homeless, sometimes sleeping at night and homeless shelters and lodging houses. riis had a very personal reason to have a grudge about police lodging houses. he tells a story in his night he was of a in particular despair where he had considered throwing himself into the east river. he was befrien

. >>> you're looking at a time lapse video recorded by the library of the 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 library's thomas jefferson building to learn about the life of the danish born journalist, social reformer and photographer. >> my name is bonnie and i wrote the complete collection catalog of riis's photographers that was published on the occasion of this exhibition and my engagement with the collection started in the 1980s when i was curator of princeton photographs at the museum of the city of new york which owns riis' new york photographs. there is a great paradox to riis' photographs which was that he was a journalist and he was a celebrity and he saved all of the documentation of his career. he wanted to be remembered for posterity, he created scrap books, he saved his manuscripts, every scrap of paper, and he abandoned his photographs because he didn't even think they were of any value apart from his words, apart from his arguments and his articles and his publication

. >> you are looking at a time-lapse view 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 tv's artifacts, we learn about the life of the danish born journalist, social reformer, and

a. >>> next, art history professor, curator and officer bonnie yokelson about jacob riis. the professor argues that the danish-born riis was not an artist but used photography as a mechanism to expose poor living conditions and poverty in new york city during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. the library of congress center for the book hosted this hour-long event. >> i'm here to introduce bonnie yochelson. bonnie is from the d.c. area but she's made her long time home in new york city. she graduated from swarthmore college and proceed a masters and doctorate in art history from new york university. earlier in her career she was working in the print room at the national gallery of art in washington, d.c. and from 1987 to 1991 she was the curator of prints and photographs at the museum of the city of new york and that's where she was able to work with the jacob riis collection of photographs. since leaving the museum, she's been an independent curator and photographic historian working with such institutions as the new york historical society, the columbia county histor

funds, to open model lodging houses that would have to wash clothing and a real bed to sleep in and so on. the exhibition " jacob riis: revealing how the other half lives" can be viewed online. tv,ext on american history howard university law professor mariella olivares discusses the effects of the immigration act on latinas, specifically from mexico, guatemala, el salvador, and honduras. she argues this supported cheap labor services, primarily benefited in, and indirectly caused a rise in illegal immigration. this 40-minute talk is part of a two-day symposium brought to you -- posted by the u.s. capitol historical society on the history of immigration. prof. finkelman: again, for those of you who are just joining us, my name is paul finkelman. i am the director of this symposium for the u.s. capitol historical society. i'm also the visiting professor of human rights law at the university of saskatchewan at the moment. it is a great pleasure to be here and to work with the capital historical society to put together this symposium in what is a very historic room. yhere have been innumerable important hearings. the in

taken with a stereo graphic, stereo skop pick camera which has two lenses so there's two images which have the two tufts and the bolos. that's the famous image. >> the exhibition jacob riis can be viewed online at the library of congress website, loc.gov. >>> u.s. house of representatives historian matthew wasniewski and house curator farar elliott join katherine scott in a presentation about the u.s. capitol page program. using a variety of images they discuss their latest research into the program, recent acquisition of artifacts and historic milestones such as the first african-american page and the first women pages. the u.s. capitol page alumni association hosted this hour-long event as part of a reunion of pages. >>> welcome back. jerry papazian again. our second panel to moderate and introduce this next panel of house and senate historians, the house historian himself, matt wasniewski. we at the alumni association have developed, i think, a great relationship with the house and senate history offices and i'm often reminded that, what you heard in the previous panel, that sometimes the historians are looking for eyewitnesses to events that happened 50 or 60 years a

i am a historian. jacob riis was born in 1849 in denmark. he was the son of a schoolteacher and was basically raised in this very beautiful small town in denmark. he was a rebellious youth and even though he was the son of a teacher, he was not a good student although he loved to read. he played hooky a lot and when he was in new york, he had a lot of sympathy for truant young boys. a lot of his articles are about truancy and how we can get kids into school. he wrote from personal experience. a lot of what he wrote about he did have personal experience because he was an immigrant to the united states. when he was 21 years old, in 1870, he came to the united states by himself. he had a very hard time initially here finding work. he did all kinds of odd jobs. worked as a laborer, worked as a door-to-door salesman, sometimes homeless. sometimes sleeping at night in homeless shelters and police lodging houses. all of this experience he brought into his articles later when he was more established as a police reporter and had a salaried job in the