Archive for the '1930s' Category
A Farewell to Arms and Welcome to “Railroaded” Indians
• July 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), American Indians, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, California Limited, Charles L. Marshall Jr., corn dance ceremony, decoration, Empire route, feather headresses, femme fatales, Francis Luca, Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Hopi Indians, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Indians, indigenous peoples, Kachina dolls, Louis W. Hill, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, mosaics, murals, National Parks, Native Americans, native peoples, Navajos, ornament, ornamental metal sculpture, Paul Cret, Pikuni and Kainah Blackfeet Indians, playing cards, portfolio plates, portraits, promotional literature, Pueblo Indians, railroad executives, Railroads, redheads, Richard L. Tooke, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Santa Fe Line, See America campaign, Union Terminal Station (Cincinnati Ohio), Vicki Gold Levi, William Penhallow Henderson, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
The GI Bill: America’s Promise to the Citizen-Soldier
• June 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American war propaganda, Civilian Conservation Corps, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Anacostia Flats, Arsenal of Democracy, Bonus Expeditionary Force, Bonus March, Burnett Roth, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), demonstrations, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, GI Round Tables, Hoovervilles, Hurricanes, lobbying, Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill), shantytowns, Sheryl Gold, Steve Heller, Washington D.C.
Out From The Shadows: Pulp Periodicals And Paperbacks
• May 10, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Anti-Nazi propaganda, colonial propaganda, donations, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Japanese Empire, library donors, Middle East, museums, Orientalism, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: “true crime” stories, detectives, Erica Melamed, femme fatales, Film noir, G-men, gangsters, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Japanese militarists, Joseph Perez, kidnappers, Mauriel Fernandez, men's literature, Middle Easterns, murder, Nazis, North Africans, Orientalism, paperbacks, Police, pre-code Hollywood, Prostitutes, pulp magazines, Receptions, romance, sex, sexualization of women, Tiffany Breslawski, violence
Making Progress, Work: FDR’s Executive Order Creates the Works Progress Administration
• May 6, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FAP, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 100 days in office, FDR, Federal Arts Project, federal courthouses, Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), infrastructure projects, murals, post office murals, progress, social workers, Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), TERA, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, welfare, welfare state, Works Progress Administration, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The Rolls-Royce “Art Drive” Makes a Stop at The Wolfsonian
• April 21, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, automobile design, automotive design drawings, collectors, displays, Ford Motor Company, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: aerodynamics, assembly line production, automobiles, Bobby Hupp, Buick, bumpers, Cadillac, designs, Detroit, Durant Motors, Ford Motor Car Company, Frederic A. Sharf, Futuristic vehicles, General Motors, grills, Henry Ford, hood ornaments, Hupmobiles, Hupp Motor Car Company, Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company, Lansing (Michigan), Lincoln automobile, Lincoln Zephyr, Locomobile Company of America, Locomobiles, luxury automobile brands, Miami Art Drive (2017), Oakman Motor Vehicle Company, Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Oldsmobiles, promotional brochures, Ransom E. Olds, RDH Motorcar Company, Rocket V8 engine, Rolls Royce, Sketches, Sotheby's Auction House, Stock Market Crash (1929), T. W. Pietsch II, T. W. Pietsch III, Ted Pietsch
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
Parlez-Vous Francais? Visit to The Wolfsonian by FIU Professor and French Club
• March 10, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, book art, collectors, displays, donations, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: animals, Annuaire du syndicat des planteurs de caoutchouc de l’Indochine, Au Royaume du Bistouris, Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939), Bretagne (France), Breton, Breton (language), Cambodia, cartoons, centaurs, Eugene Louis Charpentier (1811-1890), FIU French club, French (language), Greek mythology, Gustav Adolf Mossa (1883-1971), Hyalis: petit faune aux yeux bleus, indigenous peoples, Indochina, Le Cercle Francais, Maria Antonieta Garcia, mermaids, Modern Languages Department, nurses and nursing, rubber tappers, rubber tree plantations, satyrs, sirens, Vietnam
