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Once More, The Lights Are Bright On Broadway
• September 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Artists, Broadway, collectors, donations, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, playbills, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
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