Archive for October, 2011
PICTOGRAPHIC STATISTICS: OTTO NEURATH, GERD ARNTZ, AND THEIR INFLUENCE
• October 29, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in graphic arts, graphic designers, Virtual library displays, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Ashley Dugdale, David Almeida, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Gerd Arntz (1900-1988), graphic statistics, Isotypes, Miguel Regojo, Otto Neurath (1882-1945), Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, portfolios, Richard Hoberman, Soviet propaganda, Speaking signs, Statistically Speaking, statistics
WHOSE NATIONAL PASTIME IS IT?
• October 21, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: A League of Their Own, baseball, Fidel Castro, Great Depression, Jr., Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Mitchell Wolfson, national pastimes, sports, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, World War II
ENVIRONMENTALISM, THEN AND NOW
• October 19, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Black Sunday", black blizzards, Burr Singer (1912-1992), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, climate change, deforestation, Dust Bowl, dust storms, dusters, Ecological crises, Everglades National Park, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America from the Wolfsonian Collection, Pauline Winick, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), soil erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The Great Depression and new Deal Americana, Virginia Berresford (1904-1995)
PRETTY IN PRISON
• October 14, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Cuba, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, war propaganda
Tags: Amanda Knox, Evangelina Cisneros, Karl Decker, New York Journal, Spanish- American War of 1898, Women prisoners, Yellow journalism
NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 13, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Amerindians, BIA, Big Cypress Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, calendars, curators, domestic tourism, Farm Security Administration photographs, Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal Writers' Project, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Florida guide, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FSA, Great Depression, Indians, John Collier Sr., Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Manville Chapman, Native Americans, Navaho rugs, Navajo Indians, New Deal, Office of Indian Affairs (Educational Division), Osceola, portraits, Robert Delson, See America campaign, Seminole Indians, Sydney Delson, The Education of Little Tree, The Only Good Indian, U.S. Office of indian Affairs, vintage postcards, William H. Helfand, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), wood block prints
WHEN THE LEFT HELD SWAY IN THE US OF A
• October 5, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, political art, Popular Front, propaganda
Tags: American WWII propaganda films, Anti-communism, capitalism, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, communist propaganda, Counter Attack, CPUSA, Earl Browder, Elinor J. Brecher, Francis Xavier Luca, Hollywood, Hollywood blacklisting, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), International Labor Defense (ILD), Leo Brecher, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Martijn F. Lecoultre, Mission to Moscow, Ninotchka, Red Scare, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Saco and Vanzetti, Song of Russia, Steve Heller, The North Star, Wobblies
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