Archive for the 'Blue eagle' Category
From Prohibition and Flappers to New Dealers and the Lunatic Fringe: Wolfsonian Library Collection Highlights
• November 21, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, bars, Blue eagle, Cuba, donations, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, programs, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: African-Americans, alcoholism, Alfred E. Neuman, beer, bootleggers, Carteles (magazine), Christopher DeNoon, Communists, Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Demagogues, Eleanor Roosevelt, fans, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flappers, Francis Townsend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gangsters, Gibson Girls, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Jazz Age, Mad magazine mascot, National Recovery Administration, New Deal art, new woman ideal, NRA, postcards, Prohibition (1919-1933), rum runners, sheet music, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Socialists, speakeasies, the New Boy, Upton Sinclair, Vicki Gold Levi, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
When Funding Art Was the Federal Response to Economic Crisis
• October 7, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, bindings, Blue eagle, book art, Christopher DeNoon, curators, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, FWP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Haiti, History Department, library donors, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, theatrical producers, WPA
Tags: AMH 3317 America & Movies: The Great Depression in Film and History, Benjamin Messier, Canada Lee, classical music, Claudia Mendoza, FAP, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), FMP, folk traditions, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FTP, FWP, Giovanni Bombace, Haiti, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Henri Christophe, John Houseman, Kathleen Dowling, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Nikolai Sokoloff, Orson Welles (1915-1985), Posters for the People: Art of the WPA (2008), Posters of the WPA (1987), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Unemployment, Voodoo Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), William Sam, Wolfsonian library, WPA
Happy Days Are Here Again: Prohibition Repealed This Day In 1933
• December 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Blue eagle, Cuba, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, prohibition, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: "roaring twenties", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1933, 21st Amendment, alcohol, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, beer, bootleggers, campaign theme songs, Champagne, Democratic National Convention (1932), Dick's Bar (Havana), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gangsters, Happy Days Are Here Again, Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows, immigrants, Joan Blondell, Kate Greenaway, Ku Klux Klan, presidential vetos, Prohibition, rum, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), speakeasies, Temperance Movement, Volstead Act, wine, Woodrow Wilson, zenophobia
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Back to Work with the New Deal
• April 14, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in AAA, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, curators, displays, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, WPA
Tags: AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Arsenal of Democracy, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Duard Marshall (1914-2010), Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mural studies, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, NRA, Public Works Administration (PWA), PWA, Rosita Maria Sosa, shovels, Social Security, Socialism, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), Victor Candell (1903-1977), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
VISUAL AND LITERARY ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY’S GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL COLLECTIONS
• September 10, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, American left artists, Artists, Blue eagle, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, WPA
Tags: "Every Man a King" (song), "forgotten man", Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Alfred Landon, Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Breadlines, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver: an illustrated account of travel into that strange country the United States of America (1935), Democrats, drought, Dust Bowl, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Federal Arts Project, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Xavier Luca, General Services Administration (GSA), Huey Long (1893-1935), Julie Redwine, Karl Marx Capital in Pictures (1933), Kathy Erickson, mural studies, My First Days in the White House / by Huey Long (1935), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), Old King Dole, Peter Clericuzio, political campaign literature, presidential contenders, Professor Carmela McIntire, Republicans, Resettlement Administration (RA), Share the Wealth, Sharecroppers, shovel-leaners, shovels, Tenant farmers, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
ELEPHANTS, DONKEYS, EAGLES, AND UNCLE SAM: NEW DEAL BRANDING FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 18, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, acquisitions, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, Blue eagle, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, visual thinking strategies, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Brain Trust", "We do our part" (NRA motto), 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A. Birnbaum, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), American Artists' Congress, American eagles, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Arsenal of Democracy, Bacardi, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Bureau of Graphic (OWI), cartoons, Charles T. Coiner (1898-1989), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cock Robin, Democratic donkey, Don Quixote, Editorial cartoons, Einson_Freeman Company, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Works Agency (FWA), Francis Xavier Luca, Ganymede, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), GOP elephant, Greek mythology, Havana (Cuba), High School students, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), iPrepartory Academy, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, James Cagney (1899-1986), Japanese Empire, Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), Magazine covers, Mother Goose in Washington, National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), NRA parade (NYC), Office for Emergency Management (OEM), Office of War Information (OWI), Old King Dole, Paolo Garetto (1903-1989), Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Progressive Era, Punch (magazine), Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota FL), Roosevelt Album, Roosevelt Omnibus, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), satires, Sheet music covers, Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Socialist Labor Party, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Ticker tape parades, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncle Sam, Vaughan Shoemaker (1902-1991), White Collar, Will H. Chandler, William Gropper (1897-1977)
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
ROOSEVELT’S "BLUE EAGLE" CAMPAIGN AND ITS CRITICS ON THE LEFT
• October 3, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in Blue eagle, FDR, FIU, Great Depression, New Deal, NRA, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: National Recovery Act, National Recovery Administration
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