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
Honoring Women and Heckling Hitler
• March 27, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, curator, Disney, displays, donations, Fascism, fashion for women, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pacific campaign (WWII), Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, Philippines, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Alexander Z. Kruse, archives, Aristotle Ares, Army Air Forces (U.S.), Aryans, Axis, B-26, boot straps, Broadsides, calendars, Charles L. McCartney Jr., Crypt Cracking, Dolores Trenner, Donna Victor, Envelopes, Espanolaphone, First aid, FIU Professor Terrance G. Peterson, Home front, Hotzi Notzi, Into the Stacks, jeeps, Jeffrey G. Fischer, joeys, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Kaiser Wilhelm II, kangaroos, Keep 'em Flying (magazine), Maps, March, Martijn F. Lecoultre, matchcovers, Max Halverson (1924-2006), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, Michael Smith, Nathaniel Sandler, Nurses, Pamela K. Harer, Pamphlets, pincushions, postcards, Republic of Salo, rolling pins, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots (event), schoolgirls, sewing needles, Sheet music covers, Shoshana Resnikoff, skirts, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Thomas Barrett Archive, U.S. navy, Uniforms, USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), Victory Gold Levi Collection, WAACS, WACS, wigs, Wolfsonian public programs, women in the Armed Services, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Women's History Month
Celebrating Black History Month
• February 28, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal era, political art, Popular Front, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: African American history, African-American heroes, African-American role models, African-Americans, American League Against War and Fascism, August Mecklem Estate, Black History Month, calendars, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Crypt Cracking, family life, Frederic Douglass, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Harlem, Harriet Tubman, heroes, Into the Stacks, Joe Louis, Knight Foundation, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), May McNeer, Nathaniel Sandler, North Star Shining / by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Novels, Patricia Frisella, poetry, protest poetry, race, racism, segregation, Socialism, Socialists, sociology, The Darker Brother / by Bucklin Moon, The Great Migration, The Negro Family / by E. Franklin Frazier, The Third Generation / by Chester B. Himes, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood block prints, wood engraving
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