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
Frankenstein’s Monsters
• October 22, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Alexander Laing, banality of evil, biological weapons, bioweapons, Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, Capitalists, Carnegie Foundation, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, coal towns, Communists, Covid, eugenics, Frankenstein, genetics, Great Depression, Halloween, horror, horror stories, laboratories, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), mermaids, Motives of Nicholas Holtz, pandemics, plagues, Rockefeller Foundation, scientists, sterilization programs, viruses, Weird Tales (pulp periodical)
Historical Horrors for Halloween
• October 30, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Artists, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hengeler (1863-1927), Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), bats, bellboys, Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), Communists, Death, demons, devils, Fascists, Frankenstein, gargoyles, ghouls, Grim Reaper, Halloween, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Jurgen Freese, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Light bulbs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), monsters, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, ogres, Skeletons, skulls, The Belboy (film : 1960_, Vampires, Works Progress 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)
THE DAUNTLESS DANE: THE ANTI-NAZI ART OF HARALD RUDYARD ENGMAN
• March 18, 2014 • 5 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Harald Engman, Nazism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, anti-fascist movement, anti-Nazi movement, Censorship, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), collaborators, Communists, concentration camps, Copenhagen (Denmark), Danish artists, Denmark, Der Forbudte Maler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), German occupied territories, German-occupied Denmark, Germany, Gestapo, Harald Rudyard Engman (1903-1968), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hermann Goring, heroes, Human Pyramid, Jews, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), lampoons, Menneske Pyramide (Human Pyramid) oil painting, Militarism, Nazis, Neutral countries, Neutrality, Pedophile, PODfest, Policemen, Power of Design (Complaints), Protectorates, Quislings, Resistance, Satire, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), War in art
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
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 1930s: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 28, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African American history, American League Against War and Fascism, anti-lynching campaigns, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Brian Orfall, Cartoonists, civil rights, civil rights activists, Communist organizers, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Communists, David Almeida, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. Edgar Hoover, Jack O'Dell, James W. Ford, Linocuts, lithographs, lynchings, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Martijn F. Lecoultre, MLK, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Negro Rights, North Star Shining, Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Socialists, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), vice presidential candidates, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood engravings
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
DONATION OF RARE HUGO GELLERT PORTFOLIO TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 18, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Communist Party of the United States, Communists, donations, Elinor Brecher, gifts, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, political art, Popular Front, portfolios, silk screen, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Communism in art, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Communists, CPUSA, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985)
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