riis used -- riis' use of mass media including the lecture circuit made riis the nation's face and voiceof urban reform. so here's the great story about this image. the "chicago tribune," for example, ran a series of seven full-page articles "the story of the slum" which in seven weeks in a row the entire first page of their editorial section. and so this is the first -- this is the first one and it's called "the story of the slum part one," and it shows some of riis' pictures and his portrait all in wood engravings after the photographs. so for this, riis was paid $1,000, which was about $29,000 today. so it gives you some sense of his national reputation. let's get rid of that terrible picture. in 1901, riis published his autobiography "the making of an american, a confessional text" built around two characters, his wife elizabeth and his friend teddy roosevelt. the book was published on riis' 25th wedding anniversary and just months after roosevelt became president. a stroke of fate due to the assassination of president william mckinley. the story of a poor young foreigner who became

riis revealing new york other half." riis was a photographer. her scholarship has provided a much fuller picture of riis. as an immigrant who pulled himself up by his boot straps, a journalist and author who considered photograph nothing more than a tool. by seeing this fuller picture of riis and by reading his articles books lectures and the personal papers housed here at the library. we can better understand that the issue nas new york other half faced. poverty, poor housing conditions, child labor, lack of access to education homelessness and disease. the most if not all of these issues are still with us today, which makes riis's work and bonnies more relevant than ever. as an editor, i have worked with a lot of different authors and i want to take this opportunity what a pleasure it was to work with bonnie and how much i admire her as a scholar and an independent and a museum professional. to take this certain kind of person to be successful as an independent scholar, someone who can manage her own time, meet deadlines, forge partnerships an

riis used -- riis' use of mass media including the lecture circuit made riis the nation's face and voiceof urban reform. so here's the great story about this image. the "chicago tribune," for example, ran a series of seven full-page articles "the story of the slum" which in seven weeks in a row the entire first page of their editorial section. soopd this is the first -- this is the first one, called the story of the slum part one and it shows some of riis' pictures and his portrait all in wood engravings after the photographs so for this riis was paid a thousand dollars dollars, which about $29,000 today which gives you some sense of his national reputation. in 1901, riis published his autobiography "the making of an american, a confessional text" built around two characters, his wife elizabeth and his friend teddy roosevelt. the book was published on riis' 25th wedding an vary air is and months after roosevelt became president. a stroke of fate due to the assassination of president william mckinley. the story of a poor young foreigner who became a happily married father of five and visi

like is another riis- activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. hyne went into factories and fields and took photographs considered some of the most important documentary photograph of the 20th century. particularly of child labor. used up like reese had pictures of the children to show this to social reformers and testify in front of congress. it led to major child labor legislation. >> one important about this exhibit and especially the kind of issues we deal with and emphasize on the sidewalls about public housing and public health, the attitudes towards immigrants. all these issues are still very much with us today. we like people to understand that they go back far into the 19th century and these people grapple with them at this time and we continue to grapple with them today. would be as data today to learn that he is best known for being a photographer, which is not what he thought of himself as. , thenk the first exhibit exhibit in new york and the upcoming exhibit in denmark, they are repositioning riis moretti saw himself as a communicat

from the jacob riis papers. and he was a patron of the kings daughters group which is a group of episcopal women following health inspectors in the lower east side and they eventually had purchased this property and he helped them do that by giving lantern side lectures and donating the money he gave and he was a major fund-raiser for the creation of the settlement and continued to raise funds for its operation and they had a kindergarten, social services, nursing vurss. a playground in the backyard for the kids and it was a church based settlement house which he was as a very pious protestant, he was very comfortable with the church-bagsed charity. some of the other settlements were nonsectarian or secular and among the people that lived it, lillard wald's henry street settlement was florence kelly and florence kelly lived previously at whole house in chicago that was founded by jane adams and ellen gate star in 1889 and was a factory inspector for the state of illinois and came to new york. she moved into the

riis died in 1914. in the 1940's, a photographer named alexander alland noticed in riis' book that on the title page it says "with illustrations after photographs by the author." he said to himself, where are these photographs? after several years of searching, he tracked down rii'' son and with much coercing, got his son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of his family's home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. his son discovered a box filled with 400-odd negatives, 300-odd lantern slides, and almost 200 paper prints and delivered them to alexander alland, the photographer. taking a couple of years, he created an exhibition from the negatives, making beautiful prints from the negatives and working with the curator with the museum of new york to put on an exhibition called "battle of the slums." it established riis as an important photographer. that is how he entered the history of photography. my problem is a curator in the 1980's was, we don't have prints

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 i admire her as a scholar and museum professor. she manage her own time, and find money to get big projects done. i was spending much of my time on this one project, she was simultaneously conducting original research, writing unique exhibition lists for different venues. tea

riis never forgot it. and when he wrote about the closing of the police lodging houses which he successfully did help, hedore roosevelt titled the chapter in his autobiography "my dog is avenged." he was concerned about the lodging houses because of the crowdedness and criminality. a lot of younger people were exposed to hardened criminals or recruited to be pickpockets. it was not a wholesome environment for the young. also, there was the spread of disease because of the crowdedness. this particular article we are highlighting is the story of a man shown lying on the floor. he is very ill. he is at the police station and he did have typhus. ofs uses this as an example the danger of contagious diseases to the people staying there who would spread it when they left in the morning. but also to the policemen themselves. the police were concerned about this issue. they do succeed in closing down the lodging houses. and the idea that the policing authority should have a major role in supplying homeless shelters

after several years of searching he tracked down riis' son and with much coercing got riis' son to try to find the pictures which turned out to be in the attic of the family's home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. so his son discovered a box filled with 400 odd negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints and delivered them to alexander land, the photographer, who, again, taking a couple of years created an exhibition from the negatives, making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives, and working with the curator of the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with islam, named for one of riis' books in which these beautiful large pictures along with excerpts from riis' writings established riis as an important photographer and that's how he entered the history of photography. again, the paradox about riis is that he himself said that he was a photographer after a fashion, in other words, that he wasn't a real photographer. he used the camera for very few years, less than ten years, and he only took about 300 p

riis. she's also written books on the school of photography and esther buble. and of course, bonnie wrote the book we're all here for today "jacob a. riis, revealing new york's other half." when bonnie first began working on riis more than two decades ago, he was remembered primarily as a photographer, and her subsequent scholarship has provided a fuller picture of riis as a journalist, author, and social reformer who considered photographs nothing more than a tool to spread his message. by seeing the fuller picture of riis and reading his articles, books, lectures and personal papers that all housed here at the library, we can better understand the issues that new york's better half actually faces. poverty, poor housing conditions, child labor, lack of access to education, homelessness, and disease. and most, if not all of these issues, are still with us today in one form or another, which makes riis' work and bonnie's more relevant than ever. as an editor, i have worked with a lot of diff

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 pleasure it was to work with bonnie and how much i admire her as a scholar and an independent -- and a museum professional. it takes a certain

riis never forgot it. when he wrote about the closing of the police lodging houses, which he successfully did with theodore roosevelt's help, he wrote in his autobiography, "my dog is avenged." as he was concerned about the lodging houses because of the crowdedness and criminality, a lot of younger people were exposed to harden criminals or recruited to be pickpockets. it was not a wholesome environment for the young. but also, there was the spread of disease because of the crowdedness. this particular article we are highlighting is the story of a man shown lying on the floor. he is very ill. he is at the police station. he did have typhus. riis uses this as an example of the danger of contagious disease to the people staying there who then spread it when they left in the morning, but also to the police themselves. the police were concerned about this issue. they do succeed in closing down ideaodging houses and the the policing authority should have a major role in supplying homeless shelters. riis believe

riis smoot was an early morning apostle and u.s. senator. n apostle for the church running for national office did not sit well with some. long series of a occuronies were called to smoot before he could be elected said for the senate. they took testimonies of key leaders of the church and others including the president of the church at that time. they would ask a series of questions mostly about the practice of polygamy and at that time, the president of the church, president smith was a practicing polygamist. there are some good political cartoons related to this time period. s did not see any of the one reed smoot kept. there are a few that relate to this time. some of these might be related to the fears going on. some of these relate to the testimony of president smith. there are some things said that put the church in a bad light or put him in a bad light. most helpful to smoot.ith -- reed showing how he might have felt after hearing president smith's testimony. they were all over. there are many political cartoons of that time. there w

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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

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.

. >>> 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

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. >> 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

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video recorded by the library of congress showing the process of constructing the exhibition jac ob riisvealing how the other half lives. next on the market history tv. we exhibit b exhibit to learn more about the life of the danish born journalist, social reformer and photographer. i wrote the complete collection of catalog of the photographs that were published on the occasion of this exhibition. began inment was -- the 1980's when i was looking at photographs the city of new york riis's photographs. a great paradox to his photograph. he was a journalist and a celebrity and he saved all the documentation that he wanted to remember for posterity. he created set books and manuscripts. every scrap of paper. he abandoned his photograph because he did not think they were of any value apart from his work, apart from his argument in his article. s and publications. the way they were discovered is a fascinating story. 1914 was a photographer in , in the 1940's, a photographer noticed in his book how the other half live that on the title page, it says, with illustrations after photographs by th