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
A BRIEF POST FOR “WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR” FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• June 12, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FDR, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, political art, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Art Deco illustrators, Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), child labor, Christopher DeNoon, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, documentary photography, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Ernest Fiene, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, FSA photographers, graphic statistics, Great Depression, John Vassos (1898-1985), Jon Mogul, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., mural studies, New Deal America, newspaper boys, pictographic statistics, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rudolf Modley, Russell Lee (1903-1986), shoe-shine boys, Sweat shops, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, World Day Against Child Labour
ELEPHANTS, DONKEYS, EAGLES, AND UNCLE SAM: NEW DEAL BRANDING FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 18, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, acquisitions, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, Blue eagle, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, visual thinking strategies, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Brain Trust", "We do our part" (NRA motto), 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A. Birnbaum, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), American Artists' Congress, American eagles, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Arsenal of Democracy, Bacardi, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Bureau of Graphic (OWI), cartoons, Charles T. Coiner (1898-1989), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cock Robin, Democratic donkey, Don Quixote, Editorial cartoons, Einson_Freeman Company, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Works Agency (FWA), Francis Xavier Luca, Ganymede, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), GOP elephant, Greek mythology, Havana (Cuba), High School students, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), iPrepartory Academy, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, James Cagney (1899-1986), Japanese Empire, Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), Magazine covers, Mother Goose in Washington, National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), NRA parade (NYC), Office for Emergency Management (OEM), Office of War Information (OWI), Old King Dole, Paolo Garetto (1903-1989), Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Progressive Era, Punch (magazine), Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota FL), Roosevelt Album, Roosevelt Omnibus, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), satires, Sheet music covers, Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Socialist Labor Party, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Ticker tape parades, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncle Sam, Vaughan Shoemaker (1902-1991), White Collar, Will H. Chandler, William Gropper (1897-1977)
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