Archive for the 'Great Depression' Category
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
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
Long Shot: Populist Politician and Presidential Contender Huey Pierce Long Assassinated This Day In History
• September 8, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, exhibitions, Fascism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: assassinations, bridges, crown of thorns, demogogues, Every Man A King (campaign song), Francis Xavier Luca, governors, Great Depression, highways, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ku Klux Klan, library installations, Louisiana, Populists, presidential contenders, presidential elections, Senators, Share Our Wealth society, The Politics of -Isms (library installation)
The Promise of Paradise: Wolfsonian Exhibition on Cuba Opens
• May 16, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, architecture, collectors, Cuba, curator, curators, dance, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, interns, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, posters, prohibition, Tobacco, typography, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: actors, Afro-Cuban jazz, alcohol, Alice Faye, Arthur Murray Dance Studios, Bacardi, Bambu Club, beaches, Cabaret Panchin, Cabaret Pennsylvania, Cabarets, Carmen Miranda, Carole Lombard, Carteles, Casinos, celebrities, cha cha cha, Club La Conga, Coca-cola, Cuban dance, Cuban music, dancers, Desi Arnaz, drinking, Eden Concert, El Frutero (song), El Morro Castle (Havana), Entertainers, Ernesto Lecuona, exhibition installations, gambling, George Raft, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Havana Nights: Exploring Cuba Through Art and Film, Holiday in Havana, Hollywood films, La Republica, Latin music, Lobby cards, mambo, Margo, Mary Hatcher, Mary Taylor Moore, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Modern architecture, Montmartre, movie stars, museum openings, musical fusions, Nat King Cole, Nightclubs, Out of the Fog (film), Paradise, Perez Prado, Prohibition, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure - Amercan Seduction, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), Sans Souci, Sheet music covers, showgirls, singers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, socialites, sugar, tourism, Tropicana Nights, Two Latins from Manhattan (film), U.S.-Cuba relations, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade
A BRIEF POST FOR “WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR” FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• June 12, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FDR, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, political art, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Art Deco illustrators, Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), child labor, Christopher DeNoon, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, documentary photography, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Ernest Fiene, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, FSA photographers, graphic statistics, Great Depression, John Vassos (1898-1985), Jon Mogul, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., mural studies, New Deal America, newspaper boys, pictographic statistics, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rudolf Modley, Russell Lee (1903-1986), shoe-shine boys, Sweat shops, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, World Day Against Child Labour
THE MOSCOW METRO: A WOLFSONIAN COMMEMORATION OF A SUBTERRANEAN PALACE OF THE PEOPLE
• June 3, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Communism, Communists, donations, gifts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian architecture, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: air-raid shelters, Art Deco style, Famine, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Forced agrarian collectivization, Frederic A. Sharf, Isaac Y. Segal, Ivan Kuznetsov, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), kulaks, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (1893-1991), London Underground, Metro, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Siege of Moscow (1941), Socialist Realism, subways, Ukraine, underground, undergrounds
