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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Jacob Riis Exhibit 20240711

Look at the social reformer and photographer and this program is just under an hour. I am cheryl regan, im an exhibitor at the library of congress. On the curator of this exhibit, and im a historian at the library of congress. This exhibition jacob wreaths it is the first time that the collection jacob riis and the jacob jacob riis papers is a stellar collection at the city of new york. We pick the word go presentation very good now and very carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum in the city of new york and really that exhibit had revealed new yorks other half, and its slightly different it looks in a slightly different way and concentrating more on his biography more on his photography and here we are looking at jacob riis as a journalist because that is the strength of our collection the papers here which number 3000, and the Manuscript Division features well and come to the ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Jacob Riis Exhibit 20240711

In 1940s, a photographer named alexander land noticed in riis book how the other half lives, that on the title page it says, with illustrations after photographs by the author. So he said to himself, well, where are these photographs . And 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 familys home in queens, new york, that was about to be torn down. So his son discovered a box filled with 400 negatives, 300 odd lantern slides and almost 200 paper prints. And delivered them to alexander hollande, the photographer, who again, taking a couple of years, created an exhibition of from the negatives making beautiful prints, modern prints from the negatives and working with the curator at the museum of the city of new york to put on an exhibition called battle with the slum named for one of riis books in which these beautiful, enlarged pictures along with excerpts of riis wri ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Jacob Riis Exhibit 20240711

Now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history on American History tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a timelapse video 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 tvs american artifacts, we visit the exhibit in the librarys Thomas Jefferson building to learn about the life of the danishborn journalist, social reformer, and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, exhibit director in the Interpretive Programs Office at the library of congress. Im barbara baier, curator, o ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Jacob Riis Exhibit 20240712

In the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. Cheryl this exhibition jacob riis revealing how the other half lives is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress and the jacob riis papers have been married with the photographs that are in the stellar collection at the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and that exhibit was called jacob riis revealing new yorks other half was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way, and sort of concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist, because that is the strength of our collection. The papers here, which number 3000 in the
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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts Jacob Riis Exhibit 20240712

Cheryl i am an exhibit director and at the library of congress. Barbara i am the curator of this exhibit and an historian in the Manuscript Division of the library of congress. Cheryl this exhibition is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the riis papers have been married with the photographs that are a stellar collection at the museum of new york. We picked the word copresentation carefully because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of new york and really, that exhibit, which was called, jacob riis revealing new yorks other half, was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way, concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist, because that is the strength of our collection. The papers here number 3000 in the
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