Archive for November, 2011
COMMUNIST AGITATION, LABOR STRIFE, AND NEW DEAL LEGISLATION: SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS
• November 19, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, Florida International University, Great Depression, John Heartfield (1891-1968), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Popular Front, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, The Bonus March, theatrical producers, veterans, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Bonus Army, Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), Class struggle, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Daily Worker, demonstrations, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Farm Security Administration photographs, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Five Year Plan, Fred Ellis (1885-1965), FSA, FTP, Gabriel Over the White House (film), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), HUAC, I Married a Communist (film), Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lydia Gibson (1891-1964), marches, Merry Wives of Windsor (FTP production), Mission to Moscow (film), New Deal America, New Pioneers, occupy Washington, Photomontage, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Stalingrad, strikes, The Woman on Pier 13 (film), Union leaders, violence, Walter W. Waters (1898-1959), Yanks for Stalin (documentary film), youth movements
WARDS OF THE STATE
• November 9, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American left artists, FDR, gifts, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal era, Popular Front, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: African American history, book illustrators, civil rights, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Cold War, Francis Xavier Luca, Ginger Leff, God's Man, graphic novels, Great Depression, Harry F. Ward, Henry Wallace, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., North Star Shining, Paul Revere, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Obama look-alikes, President Truman, Progressive Party, Red Scares, Socialists, Srock Market Crash (1929), US-Soviet relations, US-USSR relations, wood engravers, wood engravings, wordless novels, World War II
EXHIBITIONS: CULTURE FOR THE CURIOUS
• November 4, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Disney, donations, Fifth National Industrial Exhibition Japan 1903, First aid, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Japan, Japan-British Exhibition 1910, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Medicine, New York World's Fair 1964, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Unisphere, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: International exhibitions
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