Archive for the '1930s' Category
The Artwork and Caricatures of Conrado Walter Massaguer
• May 31, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, Cuba, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: "new woman", Advertisements, Allied leaders, Art directors, artists, Bacardi, bellboys, Benito Mussolini, bobbed hair, Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, carousels, Carteles (magazine), Casino Nacional (Havana Cuba), celebrities, Censorship, Charles Dana Gibson, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Collier's (magazine), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cosmo Hamilton's People Worth Talking About (book), Cuba, Cuban pavilion, Cuban presidents, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), dominos, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, flappers, Fulgencio Batista, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Gibson Girls, Grafico (magazine), Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Guignol (book), Havana, Havana (Cuba), Havana Ateneo, high society, honeymoon, Jaime Valls, Keseven Anuncios (Advertising firm), King Features Syndicate, La Primera Exposicion de Humor, Laredo Bru, League of Nations, Leonard Finger, Life (magazine), Magazines, Maltina, Mana-Zucca, Mario G. Menocal, Massa-Girls, Maurice Chevelier, Mercurio (Advertising firm), Merida, merry-go-rounds, Mexico, Miami Music Club, Mimi Aguglia, Minoristas (group of artists), modernists, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, New York City, New York Military Academy, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), NRA, Oscar Massaguer, publishers, Ramiro Fernandez, revolutionaries, Rudyard Kipling, rumba dancers, rumberas, Santa Claus, sexual liberation, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Son Cubano, Stock Market Crash, The Miami News (newspaper), The New Tropic, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Today (magazine), tourism, tourist trade, tourists, trend-setters, Waldorf-Astoria, women, world leaders, Yucatan
A Flurry of Wolfsonian Library Installations and Displays
• May 2, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Art Deco, Artists, Bernarr Macfadden, book art, collectors, displays, donations, erotic art, exhibit cases, Fascism, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Green Library, History Department, hotels, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Philippines, photography, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, pochoirs, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, aids, AIGA Miami, Alert (magazine), Althea (Vicki) Silvera, Aristotle [Chakiris] Ares USS Yorktown Collection, Art Deco hotels, Art Deco motifs, Arthur Zaidenberg, barracks, Battle of Midway, Benito Mussolini caricatures, Bologna (Italy), butterflies, Chief librarian, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, condoms, correspondence, deviant sexual behavior, Dick Lesseraux, digital collections curator, Dolores S. Lesseraux, Dolores Trenner, Erin Heffron, erotica, Federal Arts Project, Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Gender roles, gonorrhea, Green Library, Historical Design, hiv, HIV/Aids awareness posters, Homosexuality, humor, Insects, installations, Japanese destroyers, Judith Berson-Levinson, lesbianism, madonna, Manila (Philippines), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, menus, Miami (Florida), Miami Air Depot, Miami Beach (Florida), Naval battles, Pacific Theater, Pamphlets, Physical Culture (magazine), pochoirs, portfolio plates, postcards, Posterfest, Posterfest: Design for Good 2019, proofs, prostitution, public health, pulp paperbacks, rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots archive, Seguy, sex, sex advice, sexual behavior, syphilis, Terrence G. Peterson, Tojo caricatures, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Uniforms, USS Lexington (aircraft carrier), USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), venereal disease, Victory, Victory Gold Levi Collection, warships, Women war workers, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Yucef Merhi
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019 with the Girls Scouts
• March 19, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, curator, displays, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Physical culture, physical fitness, political art, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boy Scouts, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), delinquency, Eleanor Roosevelt, Figli della Lupa (Children of the she-wolf), forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gender equality, gender issues, Gender roles, Girl Scout Troop 1239, Girl scouts, Great Britain, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, International Women's Day (March 8 2019), Joel Hoffman, League of Nations (10th Assembly 1929), male chauvinism, militarization of youth, Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, National Forests, National Parks, National Youth Administration (NYA), Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), sexism, Shoshana Resnikoff, State Parks, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Sylvia Pankhurst, tree-planting, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Wild Boys of the Road (1933 film trailer), Young Pioneers
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to The Wolfsonian
• February 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, Artists, bindings, Civil Rights Movement, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, decorative arts, displays, donations, erotic art, ethnohistory, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, pochoirs, portfolios, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aaron Douglas, African American art, African American artists, African American performers, African American poets, Alain LeRoy Locke, America & Movies: The Black Image in Hollywood and History, Body and Soul (film: 1925), Charles Cullen, colonialism, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Elanor Colburn, Folies Bergere, Harlem Renaissance, Harmon Foundation, Historical Design, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz Age, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Le Tumulte Noir, Mabel Dwight, madonna, Miguel Covarrubias, modernism, mothers and children, NAACP, naturalism, Negro Uplift, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Colin, Paul Robeson, poetry, primitivism, the Charleston (dance), The Crisis, The Emperor Jones (film: 1933), The New Negro: An Interpretation, Winold Reiss, Zora Neale Hurston
Holiday Gifts
• December 14, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, book art, children's books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, displays, donations, Egypt, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, portfolios, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African expeditions, Art Basel, automobiles, Bedouins, Berbers, Catholic missionaries, Charles de Roucauld (1858-1916), Colonial expositions, Daniel Morris, Eiffel Tower, France's overseas empire, French (language), French colonies, German-occupied France, human zoos, Huts, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Jean Sharf, Jim nd Martha Sweeny, Lake Chad, Le Tumulte Noir, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, martyrs, Midways, missionaries, Paris, Paul Colin, primitivism, Professor Antonieta Garcia, Sahara desert, Streets of Cairo, Tripoli, Tuareg peoples
War and Remembrance
• October 30, 2018 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Austria, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: A. G. Santagata, Anzac Memorial, Art Deco, bas relief, Bonus Expeditionary Force, C. R. W. Nevinson, Combat Hippies, Dialogues on the Experience of War, Egeo Venturi, FIU, Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, George Grosz (1893-1959), Irving Marantz, Jean Carlu, Jessica L. Adler, Kathe Ko, Kathe Kollwitz, La Dette (the debt), lobbying, Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), murals, NAH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Otto Beyer, Paintings, Periodicals, portfolios, PTSD, recruiting posters, sculpture, Shell-shock, Soldiers, trenches, veterans, Vorticism, war, War and Healing, war artists, War memorials, war monuments, War photography, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), World War I, Zoe Welch
Long Live the King: The Italian Liner, the Rex
• August 23, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, cruise ships, Cunard Line, Dr. Laurence Miller, Francis Xavier Luca, Laurence Miller Collection, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Italia" Flotte Riunite" Genova, authors, Blue Riband, Brochures, Castel Felice (steamship), Conte di Savoia, Costa Line, Cunard Line, deck plans, first class travel, French Line, Genoa, Italian Line, Maurizio Eliseo, Normandie (Steamship), North Atlantic crossings, Queen Mary 2 (steamship), Rex, Sitmar, VIP visitors
