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
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
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
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
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)
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
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHOUT OUT TO THE TVA! To Vend at Auction?
• May 22, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Living Newspaper, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, theatre, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Dams, Democrats, Electricity (bas relief), Elia Kazan (film director), ephemera, FDR, federal budgets, Federal Theatre Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, George William Norris (1861-1944), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), hydro-electric dams, Library of Congress, Living Newspaper, Mitchel Wolfson Jr., National Progressive Republican League, National Public Radio, NPR, postcards, posters, Power (Federal Theatre production), President Barack Obama, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential candidates, private power utility companies, Progressive liberal Republicans, Progressive Party, public power utilities, REA, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Republicans, Rural Electrification Act, Supreme Court, Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), TVA, Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), Wild River (1960)
FIU LITERATURE AND ART HISTORY STUDENTS, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS, WOLFSONIAN & SHSA BOARD MEMBERS, AND A FAREWELL TO A WOLFSONIAN FELLOW ALL IN TWO DAYS!
• February 2, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, Children's propaganda books, French consulate, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, oceanliners, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: Advertisements, Art Deco bindings, Art Nouveau, Arte rustica italiana, Board members, book bindings, calendars, caricatures, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Christopher DeNoon, Consul generals, Coronation souvenirs, Crowns, Dams, Deputy consul generals, Deutsche Gedenkhalle, Dolar Cotton, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Exposicion universal de Barcelona, F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), Fascist Italy, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), France, Futurism, Germany, Ghostland, Great Depression, heraldry, international expositions, Iron and steel, Italian futurists, Italy, Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leslie Sternlieb, lottery, Men at work, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, Pochoir plates, portraits, postcards, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Heller-Greenman, Public work projects, Puzzles, Queen Elizabeth II, Rural electrification, Sheet music covers, Soviet Union, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Steamsip Historical Society of America (SHSA), stencil works, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Une ambassade francaise, Union Square, United Kingdom, vintage postcards, Works Progress Administration, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WPA, Zang Tuum Tuum
CCC? SÍ
• September 24, 2010 • 5 CommentsPosted in CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, donations, gifts, NRA, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: Christopher DeNoon, New Deal, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 