Archive for the 'New Deal (1933-1939)' 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
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
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
CCC Reboot
• May 20, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, memorabilia, mimeography, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, The Wolfsonian Library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1933, annuals, Boy Scouts, CCC camps, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), climate change, conservation work, delinquency, depressions, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Global warming, homelessness, National Forests, National Parks, natural disasters, natural resources, nature, planting trees, President Joseph Biden, riding the rails, State forests, State Parks, trees, Unemployed, wilderness
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
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
The Artwork and Caricatures of Conrado Walter Massaguer
• May 31, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, Cuba, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: "new woman", Advertisements, Allied leaders, Art directors, artists, Bacardi, bellboys, Benito Mussolini, bobbed hair, Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, carousels, Carteles (magazine), Casino Nacional (Havana Cuba), celebrities, Censorship, Charles Dana Gibson, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Collier's (magazine), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cosmo Hamilton's People Worth Talking About (book), Cuba, Cuban pavilion, Cuban presidents, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), dominos, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, flappers, Fulgencio Batista, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Gibson Girls, Grafico (magazine), Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Guignol (book), Havana, Havana (Cuba), Havana Ateneo, high society, honeymoon, Jaime Valls, Keseven Anuncios (Advertising firm), King Features Syndicate, La Primera Exposicion de Humor, Laredo Bru, League of Nations, Leonard Finger, Life (magazine), Magazines, Maltina, Mana-Zucca, Mario G. Menocal, Massa-Girls, Maurice Chevelier, Mercurio (Advertising firm), Merida, merry-go-rounds, Mexico, Miami Music Club, Mimi Aguglia, Minoristas (group of artists), modernists, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, New York City, New York Military Academy, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), NRA, Oscar Massaguer, publishers, Ramiro Fernandez, revolutionaries, Rudyard Kipling, rumba dancers, rumberas, Santa Claus, sexual liberation, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Son Cubano, Stock Market Crash, The Miami News (newspaper), The New Tropic, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Today (magazine), tourism, tourist trade, tourists, trend-setters, Waldorf-Astoria, women, world leaders, Yucatan
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019 with the Girls Scouts
• March 19, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, curator, displays, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Physical culture, physical fitness, political art, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boy Scouts, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), delinquency, Eleanor Roosevelt, Figli della Lupa (Children of the she-wolf), forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gender equality, gender issues, Gender roles, Girl Scout Troop 1239, Girl scouts, Great Britain, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, International Women's Day (March 8 2019), Joel Hoffman, League of Nations (10th Assembly 1929), male chauvinism, militarization of youth, Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, National Forests, National Parks, National Youth Administration (NYA), Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), sexism, Shoshana Resnikoff, State Parks, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Sylvia Pankhurst, tree-planting, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Wild Boys of the Road (1933 film trailer), Young Pioneers
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