so, they met and jacob riis says, i loved him the moment i saw him. so they immediately formed a bond and they went about it at night on the night raids so that riis could familiarize roosevelt with the neighborhood and what was going on there in terms of criminality and police work at night. he showed them bandit's alley and the tenements and what policemen were doing and one of the cause celebres for riis is police lodging houses as shelters. riis had a very personal reason for a grudge about police lodging houses. as a new immigrant new to the country and homeless sometimes stayed overnight in the shelters and tells the story in the autobiography making of an american of the -- 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 and the dog was his little buddy, his only friend in america and that night he went to stay at a lodging house. they wouldn't let the dog in. the dog was waiting for him outside. and in the night as he slept, a very precious golden locket

jacob riis said i loved him the moment i saw him. they immediately formed a bond. they went about at night on these night raids so that riis could familiarize roosevelt with the neighborhood and what was going on in terms of criminality and police work at night. he showed them some of the things that were happening in tenements, and they checked up on what policemen were doing. one of the cause celebs for riis was using police lodging houses as homeless shelters. riis had a personal reason for having a grudge about police lodging houses. when he was a young immigrant, he sometimes stayed overnight in these homeless shelters. he tells a story in his autobiography of 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 little buddy, his only friend in america. that night, he went to stay at a lodging house. they would not let the dog in. the dog was waiting for him outside. as he slept, a precious golden locket that he had brought with him to america that had a pic

is can see that jacob riis in the picture. here's the small figure in clonal cuneiform second from the left. holding a handkerchief to his face. you to booker t. washington is also in the doorway -- can see that booker t. washington is also in the doorway. roosevelt himself is the only person in the picture not crying. meet theodore roosevelt? that is the story of his activism in new york city. , the basic case ce betweenhe broman theodore roosevelt and jacob riis. they first met in 1894. the new administration was elected in new york city with the reform administration. it is often described as "government. the good government movement. manifested including better sanitation. he was famousngs for was appointed sanitation and an engineer who created the cemetery workers that war workers.white printed as an army of sanitation. ofparaded as an army sanitation. the issue roosevelt and riis worked on was the closing of lodging houses. they met, the mayor appointed theodore roosevelt as police commissioner and the police headquarte

changing new york, alfred stieglitz new york and a co-author with daniel czitrom of rediscovering jacob riis. she's also written books on the clarence h. white school of photography and esther bubbley 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 wo

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

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

that's the famous image. >> the exhibition jacob riis can be viewed online at the library of congress website, loc.gov.

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.

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 work and bonnie's more relevant an ever. as an editor i have worked with a lot of different authors and since i have the stage i want to take this opportunity to say what an absolute pleasu

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 r

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

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

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 investigation of the sinking of the titanic took place in thi

. >>> 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 histo

. >> 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. i'm delighted to welcome our guest here today who will talk a lot a

. >> 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 ago and we all know that if it happened in these halls here the only pe

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