Archive for the 'Federal One' 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
A New Deal for the American Indian
• June 26, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Artists, book art, Civilian Conservation Corps, dance, ethnohistory, FAP, Federal One, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Jews, law, Legal affairs, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Photograph albums, photography, programs, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements
Tags: American Indian Defense Association, assimilation, calendar of events, CCC, Christian missionaries, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), dances, dancing, Dawes Severalty Act (1887), Democratic National Convention, Emergency Conservation Work Agency, FAP, FDR, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Felix Cohen, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FWP, Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco), Great Depression, Harold L. Ickes, Index of American Design, Indian boarding schools, Indian culture, Indian Reorganization Act (1934), Indian reservations, Indian Territory, John Collier, Native American traditions, Navajo code talkers, New Dealers, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Roosevelt Administration, Roosevelt's "Tree Army", Taos Pueblos, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA, Wyoming
Graphic Design Visitors: A Bird’s-Eye View
• March 29, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, archives, Art Deco, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, bindings, book art, children's books, Constructivism, Cuba, dance, exhibitions, FAP, Federal One, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Italian design, library donors, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, silk screen, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, typography, Vienna, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Aerial Vision (Wolfsonian exhibition), aeronautics, aeropittura, Afro-Cuban dance culture, airplanes, Albino Siviero Verossi, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, Art Deco, Art directors, aviation, Bas van Beek, bird's-eye views, Brittany Ballinger, Brochures, catalogs, Christopher Dresser, Constructivism, curators, designers, Federal Arts Project (FAP), font, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Global Strategic Communication- Creative Track, graphic art, Italian Futurism, Karel Teige (1900-1951), Lea Nickless, Lobby cards, M.AD School of Ideas, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), magazine cover art, Marlene Tosca Hunt, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, movie posters, Oscar Rieveling, Owen Jones, postcards, posters, Professor Albena Petrus Stoyanova, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Promotional materials, rack cards, Renato Di Bosso, Royal Academy in The Hague, Shameless (Wolfsonian exhibition), Sheet music covers, skyscrapers, transatlantic flights, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victorian art, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), WPA
Once More, The Lights Are Bright On Broadway
• September 15, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Artists, Broadway, collectors, donations, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, playbills, programs, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Broadway, burlesque, Christopher Marlow, Circuses, coronavirus, Delta variant, Doctor Faustus, drama, Eugene O'Neill, face masks, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), flu, Francis Xavier Luca, George Bernard Shaw, Great Depression, Great White Way, Holland Robinson, Jolsons Theatre, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), musicals, New York City, Orson Welles (1915-1985), pandemics, pneumonia, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), pulp paperbacks, Sheet music covers, Shubert Theatre, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater district, Theatre Magazine, This Is the Army, Vaudeville, virtual library displays, William Shakespeare, Zigfeld Follies
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
Some Much Needed Theatrical Distraction
• March 28, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, Christopher DeNoon, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, donations, Fascism, 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, Haiti, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, playbills, political art, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Albert Carman, America & Movies: Great Depression & New Deal Era in Film and History, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Broadway, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, Cartoonists, cartoons, CCC camps, Cinema, coronavirus, costume designers, covid 19, Democrats, Department of Amusements, directors, Dixiecrats, Elmer Rice, equal pay, escapism, Ethiopia, federal funding of the arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), film courses, Fontana Dam, foreshadowing, Great Depression, Haile Selassie, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), Herb Kruckman, Hollywood, Hydroelectric dams, Integration, John Houseman, Laurence Cromwell (fictitious character), Living Newspaper, Macbeth, Moscow Art Theatre, Nat Karson, Negro unit (Federal Theatre Project), Orson Welles, Power (Federal Theatre Play), remote teaching, RUR (marionette theatre), Shakespeare, slums, stagehands, Stand Up and Cheer (film : 1934), syphilis, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), theatre, theatre companies, theatrical performers, unions, Voodoo Macbeth (Federal Theatre Project), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA, YouTube Parties, Zoom
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
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
Happy Alaska Day!
• October 18, 2017 • 2 CommentsPosted in Artists, book art, children's books, colonialism, FAP, FDR, Federal One, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippines, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "pay streak attractions", Alaska, Alaska Art Project, Alaska drawings (booklet), Alaska Territory, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle Washington), Carl R. Saxild, Eskimos, Federal Art Projects, Forestry building, Glaciers, gold rush, gold strikes, human zoos, Igorrotes, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, international expositions, Inuit, Jerome Roth, Midways, Paintings, polar bears, postcards, President Andrew Johnson, prospectors, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Russia, Seattle (Washington), Secretary of State William Henry Steward, totem poles, totems, U.S. Court House (Anchorage), Wilderness (1920), Works Progress Administration
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)
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 