it's almost like a scrapbook or a photo album. some of these images are tilted a little bit, as if artfully placed in a scrapbook. it really is. a scrapbook is a book of disembodied pieces of memories. and in some ways, that is a memory of the past and a promise to the future. the man who printed this had run several african-american newspapers. he had an appointment to the government printing office and by 1907 all of that had vanished. all of the positions opened to african-americans that he is in a part of a gone away. the newspaper had collapsed. he had a lot of connections with john mercer langston and other folks. those things have evaporated. this is one of the last things that we know that he did. he was really attempting to put a marker down that this won't be forgotten, that will come back as george white said. in the center we've got lance bruce and hiram revels. there are a large number of african-americans who served in the house. here is joseph rainey again. the first african-american in the house. it takes is all th

and just again to give you some idea this is the first page of a small scrapbook in which he collected the press comments on his very first lecture. it reads hear, press comments on the lecture, the other half how it lives and dies in new york illustrated with 100 photographic views by riis delivered for the first time january 25, 1888 before the photograph's association. so this gives you a sense of of keeping was track of his career. the current exhibition which opened last fall in new york will travel this fall to denmark, which is his 2345eu9ive country, brings together the photographs and the archives for the first time in each venue the show takes a different form but each offers a rich portrait of him and his legacy. i first encountered the fratches in 1987 when i took a job at the museum of the city of new york. riis was a professional journalist, not photograph. indeed not even a serious amateur. yet he is considered one of the great pioneers. this is a puzzle that has kept me working on and off for nearly 30 years. but now finally i am done. today i would like to share with y

is that massive a fortress maini was going through and the archives but it actually made heydays scrapbook and newspaper clippings of their infamous inmates so going to the scrapbook i would go through the headlines and this was love at first sight and now you confess to roomful of people you don't know but. [laughter] had once i found out there were black people involved i said wait a minute this is not the history need to encounter and i could not put it down they gave me the a names and dates and then i could look them up and thattt gave me a little bit of background and in some respects when a started to research the project so there is some of the during the research for i could use the census data material from ancestry.com but but to read through the coveragean and i went through the indictment but also a random at boucher's for one of the salad bar her origins to use different aliases that i spent time on research andarch scholarship in virginia and that is where she said she was from the perugia's relief from maryland.to [laughter] so that set be backed a little bit so i had to be

photo collages, scrapbooks videos. you can add filters and animation and music.n you've preserved the memories but you've given this digital storehouse and when they get that dreaded question of what they did over their summer vacation they have all these ideas the pull from. >> but go to the pharmacy print them out, old school, maybe do a scrapbook i don't know. >> grab a glue stick, it's all about balance. >> we're almost to summer time, that's great advice. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, over to you, mike. >> looks like we're finally getting a burn off around here. took seven hours though. but starting to see the sun. >> took a little while. in some ways it's nicer in parts of the avenues as we talked about yesterday because the fog lifted up and you're seeing the horizon for the first time in a few days. the fog bank is thick, high, fat and pushing ing inland. so it's a law lot like yesterday. and that's about 2,000 feet today. you can't even see really, it's about 2,000-foot inversi which is just at the enof the fog going away. -- edge of the fog goi

the administrator actually maintained scrapbooks and they cut out newspaper clippings of their more famous or infamous inmates. so when i was going through the scrapbook that i came across this case and i saw these headlines, disembodied trunk, this was sort of love at first site for me. i don't know that's kind of thing you want to confess in a room full of folks you don't know, but there it is. once i found out there were black folks involved and there is a black woman at the heart of the story, i said wait a minute, this is not the kind of history i am used too encountering. from that, i could not put it down. those newspaper clippings it down. those newspaper clippings gave me names, dates, i had inmate roster numbers and could look up their prison records and that gave me a little bit of background. then i just worked the census data. when i started researching the project i want to how long it took me, but ancestry.calm wasn't as built-up as it is today. there is a moment turn that research were some of my prospects were distant, is actually able to use of the census data materials f

the party for many years and it's because of her that we have such a large collection of books, scrapbooks, artifacts, and many other objects that allow us to tell this story. and we are upstairs going to talk about our collection of political cartoons .y nina allender only party to have an official cartoonist and her work appeared on the cover of their publication for more than 10 years. she grew up in kansas. she was born in 1872. her family moved to washington dc around 1900. her mother was one of the first women employees at the department of the carrier and at ther studied painting corcoran school of art with the intention of becoming an art teacher. she was a painter and loved to paint and that was a big part of her identity. thealso worked for government land office, so she recognize painting would not pay the bills. d.c.as president of the branch of the national women's suffrage association and when alice paul came in 1912 with the intention of lobbying for the federal amendment, she watched with interest in this new woman. there is a great story and one of the early biography of t

the party for many years, and it's because of her that we have such a large collection of books, scrapbooks, artifacts, and many other objects that allow us to tell this story. now, we are upstairs, and we are going to talk about our collection of political cartoons by the national women's party official cartoonist, nina allender. the national women's party was the only party to boast an official cartoonist, and her work appeared on the cover of their publication "the suffragist" for more than 10 years. allender grew up in kansas. she was born in 1872. and her family actually moved to washington dc around 1900. her mother was one of the first women employees at the department of the interior. and allender studied painting at the corcoran school of art here in washington dc with the intention of becoming an art teacher. she was a painter and loved to paint, and that was a big part of her identity. but she also worked for the government land office, so she recognized that painting would not pay the bills. she was president of the d.c. branch of the national american women suffrage association

make a scrapbook together and journaling. not just as a child but as a parent.talk about that anxiety, what it's like as your child are away, and share them at the end. >> it sounds like to me from common sense media, it's important to prepare before and have these talks and discussions and a plan for summer camp. >> right. it's not about wrangling the device from your child but having a healthy balance, what you and your family thinks is that norm and taking time to disconnect and reflect. what were the hard parts? the good parts? and adjusting your behavior going forward so you can enjoy summer time and beyond. >> i read one sump camp was trying to strike a compromise. we would allow them to e-mail. they would print the emails out and hand them to the children. >> you want to keep that bond with your child, of course. but there are ways to do it and ways to allow them to do it at the same time. you're sending them there for a reason. >> it's a big deal, though! >> it is! it's hard for us, too. parents rely on that instantaneous text or chirp. it's about having

a scrapbook of clippings helps preserve memories of his brother's devotion. >> i think the world stilld to see that people will do things and not worry about their own safety, that they will put someone else's needs ahead of their own. and this was a sweet story of brotherly love. >> john's brother james has since gone on to serve in the military, stationed in afghanistan. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. thanks for watching. ♪ >>> daring rescues in frigid waters. >> i can't see anything! i need help! >> massive floods. >> oh, my god. >> it was unbelievable just how quickly that the water was moving. >> and danger at sea. >> absolutely life-threatening situation. >> get ready to get wet. catching air and crashing hard. >> ooh! >> falling in.

sometimes it would be scrapbooks, certificates or patches they received because of their participation but even more fascinating, people would produce sculptures they made of equipment they used, stained-glass windows they made of the mojave desert or a scene that has special significance to them, drawings and paintings and all kinds of visual representations of their experience. what we gathered after doing this hundreds of times was during a period of extreme secrecy when people write or talk about what they did, they sought out other ways to remember their experience and one way to do that was through art. i was fascinated with the visual culture of atomic history and i thought about various ways you could convey this history and its visual richness to readers and one of the ways i thought to do that was to have a book that included examples of the stuff which is rare and hard-to-find, exists in the bathrooms of museums and archives, and bring it to light and show this aspect of this experience and it gives you a sense of the degree of secrecy and level of concern and what it might