Archive for February, 2012
OPPOSITE VIEWS OF WORLD WAR II: WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HOSTS FIU STUDENTS STUDYING GERMAN AND U.S. PROPAGANDA
• February 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Arthur Szyk, Artists, Aryans, Children's propaganda books, donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, Holocaust, library donors, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bill Mauldin, blondes, Charles L. McCartney, Charlie Chaplin, Dolores Trenner, James Findlay (1943-2010), Jeffrey G. Fischer, Leonard A. Lauder, Michael Smith, National Maritime Union, Nicodemus helps Uncle Sam, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Professor Francis Luca, Professor Oren Stier, The Great Dictator (1940), Uncle Sam, Victory Gold Levi Collection, Victory sign, WAACS, WACS, Women war workers, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
DISPLAY OF WWII PROPAGANDA FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC SCREENING OF TENDER COMRADE AT 1:00 PM AT THE WOLFSONIAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2012
• February 23, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, displays, donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: caricatures, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Francis Xavier Luca, Home front, Ideal Gladstone, Martijn F. Lecoultre, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Rosie the Riveter, Tender Comrade (1943), Uncle Sam, Victory sign, Women war workers
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, WWI, AND LITERATURE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• February 2, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American left artists, American war propaganda, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John and Ideal Gladstone, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippine American War, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, ephemera, Every Man A King, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), labor movement, Labor unions, lynchings, My FIrst Days in the White House, Paul Muni (actor), playing cards, PWA (Public Works Administration), Rochelle Pienn, Share the Wealth, Sheet music covers, Spanish- American War of 1898, Spanish-American War, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Vicki Gold Levi, Victory Gold Levi Collection, Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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