Jacob Riis’ Museum in Ribe, Denmark
At the Museum of the City of New York, you can see the iconic photos by the Danish American Jacob Riis. I wish to go there when travelling is again is possible. Thankfully, a new museum close to his birthplace in Ribe, southern Denmark, opened last year. I believe that they have the same photos on display as in New York, making it easier to take that travelling is so limited.
Two photos from the Riis Museum in Ribe
Some of Riis’s photos from New York
One of my first posts was on his life story based on a biography. Please take a look.
Impressions from the texts on the walls of the Riis Museum
I hope you will bear with me that I have made posts about him before. He was a significant personality and not recognised before he found his destiny in the United States after struggling for his life to find his ground. Then he was forgotten for many years and found again by another photo journalist to never be forgotten again.
Categories: Biography, blogging, Children, History, Immigrants, Jacob Riis
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I sure wouldn’t mind if you even did another post on this extraordinary man, Maria. Thank you for showing me all this. Once again I have learned something new!! Thank you.
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Thank you so much again for your encouragement. I seem to keep returning to Jacob Riis because of his personal story and my love for old black and white photos. Imagine that he became best friend with President Ted Roosevelt
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I’m sure old Teddy gave him a lot of interesting ideas for photos.
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Wow, yes, and they went out together during the nights and visited the tenements. That was before Roosevelt became President
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Sure, Rough Rider to NYC Police Commissioner, to Governor, then Vice-President to President. Yikes! Too bad his nephew FDR just wanted to be King of the USA.
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Ted Roosevelt is one of my favorite US Presidents. I would like to read books about him
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There are a lot of them. Here’s 4 pages to start. I figure the shipping costs would be higher than the cost of the book though.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/browse/?b.search=teddy%20roosevelt#b.s=mostPopular-desc&b.p=1&b.pp=30&b.oos&b.tile
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Thank you so much for the link. You are up very early
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Usually between 5 & 6 am every day. Habit from when I still worked.
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I understand. You have a substantial daily program taking time to answer comments on your posts and to read and comment on other bloggers’ posts
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Certainly a busy one! hahaha
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I ordered one of the books on Teddy Roosevelt from Amazon. uk The cost is not too much then. Looking forward to reading it
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