Archive for the 'CLara Helena Palacio Luca' Category
Behind the Scenes of a Wolfsonian Library Installation Examining the Dust Bowl
• December 20, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curators, Disaster relief, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, postcards, posters, reception, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: 1919-1939, Alexandre Hogue, Amal Albaladejo, America & Movies: Between the Wars, black blizzards, buffalo hunt, Buffalo nickel, Burr Singer, Carlos Manuel Bleiker Morcillo, Children's books, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, drought, Dust Bowl, Dust Bowl refugees, dust pneumonia, dust storms, Dwayne Krier, Ecological crises, Erskine Caldwell, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FSA sanitary camps, George Lee, Golden Gate International Exhibition (San Francisco: 1939-1940), grasslands, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Homestead Act of 1862, Indian Court Federal Building, Jeffrey Gold, land speculators, Louis Siegriest, Margaret Bourke-White, Missouri Woman (painting), Naomi Averill, Pennsylvania Writers' Project, Photographers, Plains Indians, railroad companies, Receptions, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), sand dunes, Soil Conservation Act (April 1935), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Sophia Medina, Steve Forero-Paz, the Great Plains, Valentina Berrio, wheat farms, William Kramer
Gags, Censorship, and Gagging
• March 23, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Cuba, curators, exhibitions, Fascism, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, photography, photomontage, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Degenerate" art, algorithms, American League Against War and Fascism, Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) caricatures, Audrey Feldman, August Mecklem Estate, Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), book banning, book burning, caricatures, cartoons, Censorship, Charles Coughlin, Collier's (magazine), Communism, Conrado Walter Massaguer, conspiracy theories, crown of thorns, dictators, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Entartete "Kunst" Ausstellung, Fascism, First Amendment, Francis Xavier Luca, freedom of speech, gagging, gags, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), German Crown Prince, globes, Harald Engman, hate speech, Huey P. Long, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Instagram, J. P. Morgan, Jazz music, John Heartfield (1891-1968), Jordan Klepper, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leonard A. Lauder, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Lusitania (Steamship), Maps, Michael Rosenfeld, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mundt-Nixon Bill, National Socialism, Nazi-occupied territories, Nazis, Neutrality, Pamela K. Harer, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Photomontage, Plotting Power (Wolfsonian exhibitions), Sam Gross, skulls, Smith Act, Social (magazine), Soviet Union, spiders, The Evil Prince / by Hans Christian Andersen, The Saturday Evening Post (magazine), trolling, trolls, Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation), Ukraine famine, vampire bats, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi, William Gropper (1897-1977), William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Celebrating the Legacy of Josephine Baker
• December 16, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African American History, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, colonial propaganda, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, erotic art, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, playbills, programs, promotional materials, racism, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Art Deco, Cabarets, celebrations, celebrities, civil rights, Consulate General of France in Miami, Copa City (nightclub : Miami Beach), cosmopolitanism, Croix de Guerre, dancers, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Folies Bergere, French Pantheon, French Resistance, Havana (Cuba), Jazz Age, Jim Crow, Joséphine à Bobino 1975 (revue), Josephine Baker, Legion d'honneur, March on Washington (1963), modernism, naturalism, Paris (France), Paul Colin, performers, pochoirs, primitivism, Princess Tam-Tam (film : 1935), racism, segregation, singers, Siren of the Tropics (silent film : 1927), the Charleston (dance), Tropicana (Nightclub), Zouzou (film : 1934)
On this day in history, 1932: The Bonus Marchers Are Driven Out of Washington, D.C.
• July 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, book art, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, donations, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian Library, veterans, World War I
Tags: 1932, Anacostia Flats, Armed Forces, BEF, Bonus Army, bonus bill, Bonus Expeditionary Forces (BEF), Bonus March, Capitol building, cavalrymen, demonstrations, ephemera, ex-servicemen, Francis Xavier Luca, Gabriel Over the White House (Film : 1933), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hoovervilles, House of Representatives, Lafayette Park, landslide elections, Major-General Smedley Butler, Patman Veterans Bill, Police, postcards, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), presidential elections, protestors, rioting, Shanty towns, Tanks, teargas, The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Film : 1932), U.S. Senate, veterans, Walter W. Walters, Washington D.C., William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
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
Historical Horrors for Halloween
• October 30, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Artists, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hengeler (1863-1927), Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), bats, bellboys, Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), Communists, Death, demons, devils, Fascists, Frankenstein, gargoyles, ghouls, Grim Reaper, Halloween, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Jurgen Freese, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Light bulbs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), monsters, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, ogres, Skeletons, skulls, The Belboy (film : 1960_, Vampires, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Charles Lindbergh: From Distinguished Flying Cross to the Dog House
• May 20, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, concentration camp, Ford Motor Company, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Crime of the Century", Adolf Hitler caricatures, air pilots, airedales, airmen, airplane production, airplanes, alternative histories, autobiographies, Charles Lindbergh, Distinguished Flying Cross, dogs, Envelopes, Finlay Matheson, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), heroes, hounds, kidnappings, Kristallnacht, Legion d'honneur, Lindbergh baby, Luftwaffe, media, Nazi Olympics, Nicholas Blaga, Olympic Games (Berlin : 1936), Philip Roth, pogroms, pulp magazines, Sheet music covers, Spirit of St. Louis, tapestries, terriers, The Ordeal of Oliver Airedale, The Plot Against America, transatlantic flights, World War II
Celebrating Earth Day 2020, COVID-19 Style
• April 16, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, AAA, Artists, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Disaster relief, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, postcards, posters, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian staff, WPA, youth movements
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Bathing suits, black blizzards, board games, Boy Scouts, Canals, CCC camps, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), conservation, Corona virus, covid 19, dredging, Dust Bowl, dust pneumonia, Dust Pneumonia Blues, dust storms, Earth Day 1970, Earth Day 2020, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gifford Pinchot, Great Depression, John Muir, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln Hotel, mangrove swamp, manuals, Miami Beach (Florida), National Forests, National Park Service, National Parks, natural resources, Omar Khayyam, preservation, real estate promoters, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), SCS, Sierra Club, soil erosion, Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Swimsuits, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Unemployment, Walter Crane, Woody Guthrie, Yellowstone National Park
Havana, Cuba: America’s Former Premier Tourist Destination
• January 15, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, Artists, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Cuba, dance, displays, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: architecture, Arcos de Cristal, Ava Gardner, Bacardi, bats, Biltmore Hotel chain, Cabarets, Capri Hotel (1957), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Charles Francis Flynn, Coca-cola, Comodoro Hotel (1955), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban exiles, Cuban Institute of Tourism, Cuban Tourist Commission, daiquiris, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Dick Powell, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, Film noir, Frank Sinatra, Fulgencio Batista, gangsters, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Glamour, Grafico (magazine), Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Hilton, Havana (Cuba), Havana: The Magazine of Cuba, honeymooners, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Joan Blondell, John McEntee Bowman, mafiosa, Mary Hatcher, McKim Mead and White (architectural firm), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Oscar Massaguer, Our Man in Havana (film: 1959), Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), political refugees, political satire, Prohibition (1919-1933), public relations, publishers, Ramon Arroyo Cisneros (Arroyito), Riviera Hotel (1957), roulette, rum, Schultze and Weaver (architectural firm), Sevilla-Biltmore, Social (magazine), Tim Hossler, tourism, Tropicana (Nightclub), Uncle Sam, University of Kansas, vacation destinations, Victory Gold Levi Collection
From Birthday Bash to Art Basel
• December 21, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, acquisitions, American left artists, Art Basel, bars, bindings, book art, British Army, cataloging, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, Communist Party of the United States of America, Cuba, displays, donations, exhibit cases, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, Popular Front, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A Universe of Things: Micky Wolfson Collects (exhibition), Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), African American poets, Al Hirschfeld, Art Basel, Book jackets, British Empire, caricatures, Charles Cullen, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Fidel Castro, FIU marching band, Follies Bergere, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Harlem Renaissance, Havana (Cuba), Havana Chronicle (magazine), Historical Design, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrated books, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Judith Berson-Levinson, Lea Nickless, Leonard Finger, Livia Cinquegrano, Louis Miano, Lutron Electronics, Marianne Lamonaca, Mark B. Rosenberg, Miami Beach (Florida), Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nightclubs, Nu Deco Ensemble, poetry, Prohibition, Richard Miltner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Roger Arvid Anderson, Saville Ryan, Shoshana Resnikoff, Souvenirs, Speak-easies, Suffragettes, tourism, tourist trade, Tropicana, U.S. Army Air Forces, VIP visitors, Washington Storage Company
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