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museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. in the second exhibit, we pick up a story in the 1880 s, when an era rock thousands to east brought thousands of immigrants to eastern from eastern europe every year. we started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. they included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. people were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, health inspection certificates. these are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. they carried great meaning for them. je ....
don: you are welcome. [applause] narrator: you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. like us on facebook at c-span history. week, american history tv s american artifacts visits museums and historic places. up next, a visit to the national museum of american and jewish history for a tour of their exhibition, tracing the history of jewish people in america. present day.the in the second of a two-part visit, we pick up a story in the 1880 s, when an era of mass immigration brought thousands of immigrants to the united states from eastern europe every year. we started to see big waves of immigrants coming to america. they included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is the archetype of the arrival story. people were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places like galveston, texas, and california as well. we have on display a numbe ....
see big waves of immigrants coming to america. they included jews, irish, italian all kinds of people coming to america at that time. coming to all different ports, not just ellis island, which is sort of the archetype of the arrival story. people were coming to baltimore, philadelphia, boston, and places you would not think of like galveston, texas, and california as well. we have on display a number of the types of documents immigrants would have needed when coming into these ports. everything from passports to visas, luggage tags, health inspection certificates. these are things that people tended to save for a long time afterward and even past down to their children. they carried great meaning for them. jews left europe for many different reasons. one of the most well-known is the anti-semitic violence that happened in europe. things which were anti-jewish riots, and would break out from time to time? they are strongly remembered even by the great-grandchildren of ....
approved. thank you very much. the minutes are adopted. since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. item four, recommend five members transit citizen s advisory committee. we have transportation planner here on this item. good morning commissioner. this item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor advisory committee. initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. it s currently in environmental review phase. the structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. there was board initiated two year terms for those members. members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. five members represent several different seats as there are there s one appointment for seat for the richmond district. one that is a representative of the fillmore area ....
firearms continuing to be a contributing factor to senseless violence. not only here in san francisco but across our country. even though we have some of the toughest gun laws, there still remains more we can do in terms of public safety. there are gaps in our federal and state legislation that san francisco has yet to address, that a number of other counties in san francisco have already taken advantage of. that s why today i m introducing legislation that would require the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales in san francisco. and require all stores transfer to the san francisco police department. i want to thank supervisor cohen who s been a strong leader in proposing gun control reforms. it is intended to fill the gaps that exist at the federal and state level and enhance public safety. i do believe we need to do everything within our power here inside of city hall. i hear about public safety concerns whether it s quality of life crimes or violent crimes. ob ....