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
HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 24, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, book art, FAP, Federal One, forestry, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, posters, preservation, promotional materials, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American Indian portraits, Arts & Crafts movement, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Blackfeet Indians, Buffalo nickel, Conservationists, Deer, Dorothy Waugh, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Empire Builder, Environmental movement, Everglades National Park, Exodusters, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Frederick Law Olmsed Jr, George Biddle (1885-1973), Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Great Plains, Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Harry Herzog, John Muir, John R. Wagner, National Park Service, National Park Service Organic Act, Native Americans in art, New York City Art Project, North American Indians in art, posters, Preservationists, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Sierra Club, Silkscreened posters, the "Dirty Thirties", the Roycrofters, the West, Waterfalls, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works on Paper Dept., Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
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