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 suicidal feelings. it was very difficult in the beginning. there is 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 settle first in brooklyn and then in richmond hill and have a family. a lot of jacob riis' motivation in life is that everyone should have a healthy, safe and healthy , family like he does. he writes a lot about families and the welfare of children in particular. he would often tell his audiences there is no difference between these children or yours and mine. with his wife and five children there were some other children , that died young. >> next we are going to talk , about what looks like a strange assemblage of equipment. things that we are not used to seeing these days. this is photographic equipment. very similar to what riis you -- would use on his raiding parties barber described earlier. aat we have here is actually camera, so