Archive for the 'Disaster relief' 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
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
A Tribute to the Red Cross and Heroic Nurses on the COVID-19 Front Lines
• April 7, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, Disaster relief, First World War (1914-1918), FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, Lawrence Wiggins III, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: American Expeditionary Forces, American flag, army, civilian casualties, Columbia, corona, coronavirus, covid 19, face masks, Henry S. Hacker, Influenza Pandemic (1918), Jennie Mazzei Micela, Miami Beach, navy, Nurses, nurses and nursing, pandemics, postcards, posters, President Woodrow Wilson, public health, Red Cross nurses, Sheet music covers, Spanish flu epidemic, Vincenzo Mazzei
PICTURE RELIEF: PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 16, 2013 • 4 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Balochistan, British Army, colonialism, Disaster relief, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Pakistan, Photograph albums, Quetta, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 2nd Indian Signal Corps, Bolan Pass, Camels, certificates, Egypt, funeral pyres, H.M.S. Lancashire, Hospital, Hurricane Sandy relief, India, natural disasters, Port Said, Sandeman Memorial Hall, Suez Canal, Weddings
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