Archive for the 'Great Depression' Category
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
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
Cuba Mania Month
• October 1, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, programs, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Mr. Babalú", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1919, A Century of Progress International Exposition, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Another Thin Man (film: 1939), Art Deco, Art Loft (Public Television), Arthur Murray Dance Studios, bars, bodeguitas, Books & Books (Coral Gables), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricaturists, Carol Lombard, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban Rebel Girls (film), dance, Delphic Studios (NYC), Desi Arnaz, Dick Powell, documentaries, El Figaro (magazine), El Manisero (song), Emilio Cueto, ephemera, Errol Flynn, Errol Flynn's Ghost (documentary), exploitation films, Fidel Castro, fox trot, Fred F. Sears, Fulgencio Batista, Gaspar Gonzalez, George Raft, Gerardo Machado, Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows (film : 1933), Holiday in Havana (film), Hollywood actors, Joan Blondell, La Florida (bar), Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, mambo, Mambo Italiano (song), Margo, Mary Hatcher, MGM, Miami's Vinyl Social Club, Miguelito Valdés, Moonlight in Havana (film), mulatas, music, O Cinema, Pan-Americana (film), Papa Loves Mambo (song), Perez Prado, Perry Como, record jackets, record players, Rene and Estela (dancers), rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumbera, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, son pregon, Sound recordings, The Big Boodle (film), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), The Peanut Vendor (song), The Wolf on Wax, tourism, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Week-End in Havana (film: 1941), Xavier Cugat
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
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
Civil Rights and the CPUSA
• January 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Angelo Herndon, Atlanta (Georgia), Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., Black "Reds", Black Communist, Booker T. Washington, Chain gangs, civil rights activists, Communist Party candidates, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dixiecrats, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Federal Anti-Lynching bill, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), First Ladies, foreclosures, Georgia Insurrection Law, hobos, Hunter Pitts ("Jack") O'Dell, James W. Ford, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, legal cases, lynchings, mass demonstrations, Nathaniel Candelario, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Paul Robeson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Rape trials, Richard Wright, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sharecroppers, Socialists, South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Stanley Levison, Tenant farmers, The Daily Worker (periodical), The Negro Liberator (newspaper), Tom Mooney, Tuskegee airmen, Unemployment Council, vagrancy
Happy Alaska Day!
• October 18, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted 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
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)
The GI Bill: America’s Promise to the Citizen-Soldier
• June 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American war propaganda, Civilian Conservation Corps, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Anacostia Flats, Arsenal of Democracy, Bonus Expeditionary Force, Bonus March, Burnett Roth, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), demonstrations, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, G.I. Bill, GI Round Tables, Hoovervilles, Hurricanes, lobbying, Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill), shantytowns, Sheryl Gold, Steve Heller, Washington D.C.
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
