CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE: COMMUNIST CARTOONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 4, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesop Said So, blue collar workers, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Capitalists, caricatures, cartoons, Class struggle, Clive Weed, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, CPUSA, George Grosz (1893-1959), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrators, John Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913), Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Pictures, Linocuts, lithographs, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999), National Socialism, Nazis, Robert Miner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialism, Socialists, Soviet Union, Spartakus uprising (1919), Stock Market Crash (October 1929), The Mirrors of Wall Street, Tim Benson, Top hats, totalitarianism, Walter Crane (1845-1915), white collar workers, William Gropper (1897-1977), WWI, WWII
COMMUNIST AGITATION, LABOR STRIFE, AND NEW DEAL LEGISLATION: SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS
• November 19, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, Florida International University, Great Depression, John Heartfield (1891-1968), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Popular Front, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, The Bonus March, theatrical producers, veterans, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Bonus Army, Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), Class struggle, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Daily Worker, demonstrations, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Farm Security Administration photographs, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Five Year Plan, Fred Ellis (1885-1965), FSA, FTP, Gabriel Over the White House (film), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), HUAC, I Married a Communist (film), Labor unions, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Lydia Gibson (1891-1964), marches, Merry Wives of Windsor (FTP production), Mission to Moscow (film), New Deal America, New Pioneers, occupy Washington, Photomontage, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Stalingrad, strikes, The Woman on Pier 13 (film), Union leaders, violence, Walter W. Waters (1898-1959), Yanks for Stalin (documentary film), youth movements