The Tropicana Nightclub and How Cuban Women Fared Before, During, and After Fidel
• November 30, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Communists, Cuba, dance, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, photography, postcards, posters, programs, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: "new woman", 1933, afrocubanismo, Ala Izquierda Estudiantil, American imperialism, Anacaona (band), Anacaona (Haitian cacica), Arcos de Cristal, Auténtico Party, barbudos, bobbed hair, burlesque, Cabarets, Carnival, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, Charles Gibson, choreographers, Cold War, Concepción (“Cuchito”) Castro Zaldarriaga, Conrado Walter Massaguer, corruption, counterrevolutionaries, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban musicians, Cuban presidents, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), Cuban Republic, Cuban Research Institute, Cuban-American filmmakers, dancers, Department of Social Ills, dictators, documentaries, Eden Concert, Errol Flynn, ethnicity, fans, Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, Federación Democrática de Mujeres Cubanas, female musicians, feminists, Fidel Castro, flappers, Folies Bergere, Frente Cívico de Mujeres Martianas (FCMM), gambling, gangsters, gender, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Gibson Girls, girl bands, Havana, Havana (Cuba), Hermandad de Madres de Marta Abreu, I Am Cuba (film), impresarios, JFK Library (Hialeah), jineteras, Life (magazine), Manuel Urrutia, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Massa-Girls, Miguelito Valdés, models, Mujeres Oposicionistas Unidas (M.O.U.), mulattas, musicians, Nightclubs, Ortodoxo party, performers, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Prostitutes, prostitution, race, Ramón Grau, reeducation, rehabilitation, revolution, revolutionaries, Rita Montaner, Roderico Neyra, Rompiendo las Cadenas (film), rumba, singers, Social (magazine), Soy Cuba (film), striptease, Tetro Shanghai, tourists, Tropicana, Tropicana (Nightclub), vedettes, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victor de Correa, vintage photographs, We Were Strangers (film), women
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
Happy Days Are Here Again: Prohibition Repealed This Day In 1933
• December 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Blue eagle, Cuba, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, prohibition, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: "roaring twenties", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1933, 21st Amendment, alcohol, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, beer, bootleggers, campaign theme songs, Champagne, Democratic National Convention (1932), Dick's Bar (Havana), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gangsters, Happy Days Are Here Again, Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows, immigrants, Joan Blondell, Kate Greenaway, Ku Klux Klan, presidential vetos, Prohibition, rum, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), speakeasies, Temperance Movement, Volstead Act, wine, Woodrow Wilson, zenophobia
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS TO BE THE SUBJECT OF NEXT TWO WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBITS
• March 30, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, architecture, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Italy, museums, New Deal era, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1933, airships, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (1901-1945), Aviators, Balbo Drive (Chicago), Black Shirts, Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934), Chicago world’s fair, Chief Flying Eagle, Crociera aerea del Decennale, Distinguished Flying Cross, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Eagles, Fascists, Germany, Hindenburg (LZ129), Italian Pavilion, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), maiden flights, Parades, passenger accommodations, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio-telegraphed telegrams, Reykjavík (Iceland), Savoia-Machetti S.55 seaplanes, Sir Francis Claude Shelmerdine (Director General of Civil Aviation), Tidewater Oil Company, transatlantic flights, vintage postcards, Zeppelin Airship Works (Friedrichshafen
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