Archive for May, 2021
CCC Reboot
• May 20, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, memorabilia, mimeography, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, The Wolfsonian Library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1933, annuals, Boy Scouts, CCC camps, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), climate change, conservation work, delinquency, depressions, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Global warming, homelessness, National Forests, National Parks, natural disasters, natural resources, nature, planting trees, President Joseph Biden, riding the rails, State forests, State Parks, trees, Unemployed, wilderness
Unhappy Anniversary: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Demise of the Zeppelin
• May 6, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, World War I, WWI
Tags: air crashes, air reconnaissance, Air travel, air warfare, airplanes, Airship accidents, Airship hangars, airships, Aluminum, American Civil War, Arthur Krebs, August von Parseval, Balloons and ballooning, Charles Renard, Disasters, Dr. Hugo Eckener, duralumin, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917), Graf Zeppelin (airship), Graf Zeppelin II (airship), helium, Herbert Morrison, Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg disaster, Hugo Eckener, Hydrogen gas balloons, John Steiner, La France (airship), Lake Constance, Lakehurst Naval Air Station (Lakehurst NJ), Lea Nickless, Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin (firm), passenger accommodations, radio announcers, rigid airships, the Wright brothers, USS Los Angeles (airship), Versailles Treaty
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 