Archive for the 'History Department' Category
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
Radicals and Reactionaries: Extremism in America
• October 30, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, Children's propaganda books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curators, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Black Legion, caricatures, Communist Front, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert, Humphrey Bogart, James W. Ford, Jim Crowism, Karl Liebknecht, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, lynchings, NAACP, Nazi sympathizers, New Pioneer (magazine), poets, Popular Front, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial, Spartacus Uprising (1919), W. E. B. DuBois, William Randolph Hearst, Young Pioneers, youth movements
Memorial Day Reflections on the Spanish-American War and World War II
• May 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, archives, book art, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, Cuba, curators, displays, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Green Library, History Department, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, Manila (Philippines), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Monroe County Public Library (Key West, museums, Philippines, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, publishers' decorative bindings, Puerto Rico, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: "Sand in their Boots" Collection, Admiral George Dewey, Anne Layton Rice, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command (Miami Beach), Battle of Kettle Hill, Cuba, Cuban Independence wars, Evangelina Cisneros, fans, Frederic A. Sharf, Frederick Remington, General Valeriano Weyler, Havana (Cuba), human zoos, interns, Joseph Pulitzer, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Julia Ricks, Karl Decker, Manila Bay, maritime disasters, memorabilia, Memorial Day, Miami Beach (Florida), Monroe County Public Library (Key West, New York Journal (newspaper), New York World (newspaper), pillowcases, postcards, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, propaganda, Puerto Rico, reconcentration camps, Remember the Maine!, reporters, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rough Riders, Samal Moros (Philippines), Sheet music covers, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Spanish- American War of 1898, Taina Caragol, The Philippines, Tim Rodgers, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. colonial possessions, USS Maine (Battleship), veterans, Vicki Gold Levi, war artists, war correspondents, war hysteria, warships, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), yearbooks, Yellow journalism
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
Winter Visits and Gift Acknowledgements
• January 29, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, African American History, American war propaganda, Art Basel, Art Deco, Artists, book art, cataloging, collectors, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, exhibitions, fashion for women, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, fur, gifts, graphic designers, History Department, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Latin American and Caribbean Center, library donors, Lissitzky, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, photography, pochoirs, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, preservation, prohibition, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: "Mr. Babalú", 1920s, African American performers, Alain Locke, Alexander Archipenko, American Seduction, Art Deco design, Art Deco Weekend (2019), Barron Collier, bowling, Brooklyn Museum, Charles Gilpin, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, cocktail shakers, cocktail stirrers, Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, dance in art, Daniel Morris, devils, dry laws, Eduardo GarcÃa Benito, fashion, fur, fur garments, Harlem Renaissance, Historical Design, Into the Stacks, Jazz, Jean S. Sharf, Josephine Baker, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, Miami Dade public schools, Miguelito Valdés, Modern art, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Nathaniel Sandler, National Endowment for the Humanities Dialogue on the Experience of War, New Negro, Paris (France), Paul Colins, Paul Poiret, Paul Robeson, pillowcases, pochoir prints, Preservation boxes, Prohibition (1919-1933), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), race, recruiting posters, Satan, shotglasses, stencilwork, The Emperor Jones, Tropicana (Nightclub), U.S.-Cuba tourism, veterans, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, War and Healing program, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), Zines
Weaponized Wit: WWI Lampoons of Kaiser Wilhelm
• September 4, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in 1915, American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: art handlers, Ayme Cameron, caricatures, cartoons, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Stotts, collecting cards, Drawings, games, helmets, Henry Hacker, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), lanpoons, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Moses, mustaches, Satire, Shoulder Arms (film : 1918), spiders, Stephanie Diaz, Steve Forero-Paz, student-curated exhibits, Wit As Weapon (Wolfsonian library installation), Yankee Doodle in Berlin (film : 1919)
Honoring Women and Heckling Hitler
• March 27, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, curator, Disney, displays, donations, Fascism, fashion for women, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pacific campaign (WWII), Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, Philippines, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Alexander Z. Kruse, archives, Aristotle Ares, Army Air Forces (U.S.), Aryans, Axis, B-26, boot straps, Broadsides, calendars, Charles L. McCartney Jr., Crypt Cracking, Dolores Trenner, Donna Victor, Envelopes, Espanolaphone, First aid, FIU Professor Terrance G. Peterson, Home front, Hotzi Notzi, Into the Stacks, jeeps, Jeffrey G. Fischer, joeys, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Kaiser Wilhelm II, kangaroos, Keep 'em Flying (magazine), Maps, March, Martijn F. Lecoultre, matchcovers, Max Halverson (1924-2006), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, Michael Smith, Nathaniel Sandler, Nurses, Pamela K. Harer, Pamphlets, pincushions, postcards, Republic of Salo, rolling pins, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots (event), schoolgirls, sewing needles, Sheet music covers, Shoshana Resnikoff, skirts, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Thomas Barrett Archive, U.S. navy, Uniforms, USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), Victory Gold Levi Collection, WAACS, WACS, wigs, Wolfsonian public programs, women in the Armed Services, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Women's History Month
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
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)
