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
Political Isms: A New Wolfsonian Library Installation Opens To the Public
• August 18, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Fascism, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), Communism, Demagogues, Fascism, Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), isms, National Union for Social Justice, Nazism, presidential elections, Share the Wealth movement, Socialism, the "radio priest", William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
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