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
First Among Photographers, Margaret Bourke-White
• June 14, 2021 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, photography, racism, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), skyscrapers, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, War Photography, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: "Men and Machines" (exhibition : NY : 1930), Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Americanization, Americanization classes, Anti-Religious Museum (Moscow), Breadlines, Buchenwald (concentration camp), Central Europe, Chain gangs, Cold War, Czechoslovakia, Dams, Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly (book : 1945), drought, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Erskine Caldwell, Eyes on Russia (book : 1931), factories, Farm Security Administration photographs, FDR, Female steel workers, Five Year Plan, floods, Fort Peck Dam, Fortune (magazine), gargoyles, Great Depression, Gypsies, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), heads of state, Henry Luce, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hungary, industrial workers, industry, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Korean War, Kremlin, Liebensraum, Life (magazine), Lifeboat (film : 1944), lifeboats, machines, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), McCarthyism, Moravia, Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, North of the Danube (book : 1939), Nursing, One Thing Leads to Another: The Growth of an Industry (book : 1936), Photographers, Popular Front, racism, Red Scare, Rockefeller Centre, Roosevelt Administration, rural poverty, Russia at War (book : 1942), Russian front, Say Is This the U.S.A. (book : 1941), schools, segregation, shacks, Sharecroppers, Slovakia, soil erosion, solvents, South, Soviet Union, Statue of Liberty, steel workers, Tenant farmers, They Called It "Purple Heart Valley" (book : 1944), War photography, welders, workers, You Have Seen Their Faces (book : 1937)
Celebrating Earth Day 2020, COVID-19 Style
• April 16, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, AAA, Artists, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Disaster relief, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, postcards, posters, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian staff, WPA, youth movements
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Bathing suits, black blizzards, board games, Boy Scouts, Canals, CCC camps, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), conservation, Corona virus, covid 19, dredging, Dust Bowl, dust pneumonia, Dust Pneumonia Blues, dust storms, Earth Day 1970, Earth Day 2020, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gifford Pinchot, Great Depression, John Muir, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln Hotel, mangrove swamp, manuals, Miami Beach (Florida), National Forests, National Park Service, National Parks, natural resources, Omar Khayyam, preservation, real estate promoters, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), SCS, Sierra Club, soil erosion, Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Swimsuits, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Unemployment, Walter Crane, Woody Guthrie, Yellowstone National Park
VISITING SCHOLAR JOSI WARD DELIVERS TWO PRESENTATIONS ON THE FSA TO WOLFSONIAN STAFF AND FIU FACULTY
• February 1, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FDR, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), “Okies”, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Dust Bowl, dust storms, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FIU faculty, FSA photographers, FSA sanitary camps, George Biddle (1885-1973), Great Depression, Henry Hacker, Hoovervilles, Josi Ward, Le Roy Flint, New Deal era, Ph.D. candidates, Photography, Resettlement Administration, Shanty towns, Sharecroppers, Sugar beet workers, Tenant farmers, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Walker Evans (1903-1975), Wolfsonian fellows
HAPPY 97TH BIRTHDAY, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 24, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, book art, FAP, Federal One, forestry, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, posters, preservation, promotional materials, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American Indian portraits, Arts & Crafts movement, Benjamin Abromowitz (1917-2011), Blackfeet Indians, Buffalo nickel, Conservationists, Deer, Dorothy Waugh, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Empire Builder, Environmental movement, Everglades National Park, Exodusters, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Frederick Law Olmsed Jr, George Biddle (1885-1973), Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Great Plains, Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Harry Herzog, John Muir, John R. Wagner, National Park Service, National Park Service Organic Act, Native Americans in art, New York City Art Project, North American Indians in art, posters, Preservationists, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Sierra Club, Silkscreened posters, the "Dirty Thirties", the Roycrofters, the West, Waterfalls, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works on Paper Dept., Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park
ENVIRONMENTALISM, THEN AND NOW
• October 19, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Black Sunday", black blizzards, Burr Singer (1912-1992), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, climate change, deforestation, Dust Bowl, dust storms, dusters, Ecological crises, Everglades National Park, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America from the Wolfsonian Collection, Pauline Winick, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), soil erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The Great Depression and new Deal Americana, Virginia Berresford (1904-1995)
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 