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
It Must Not Happen Here
• August 28, 2020 • 4 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: Al Capone, American Fascists, American flag, assassinations, Black Lives Matter movement, book illustrators, COVID-19, dictatorships, fake news, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Flags, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, General Hugh Johnson, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. P. Morgan, lithographs, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal, Novels, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Satire, Sinclair Lewis, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
WOLFSONIAN FELLOW JILL BUGAJSKI DELIVERS HER PARTING PRESENTATION AS FORMER FELLOW ELIZABETH HEATH PREPARES AN EXHIBIT AT THE FROST MUSEUM
• February 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, accessioning, acquisitions, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Elinor Brecher, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, Popular Front, portfolios, posters, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1852-1935), America First Committee, American Fascists, American Nazis, British Colonialism, Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975), caricatures, Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dr. O. J. Currie, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Fifth Columnists, FIU Professor Elizabeth Heath, Gerald Nye (1892-1971), Grey;s Hospital (Maritsburg), H. Smith Richardson, Hospitals, Hugo Gellert, Jill Bugajski, John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), Lord Dundonald (Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane: 12th Earl of Dundonald, Major-General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908), manuscripts, Martin Dies (1900-1972), Nazi sympathizers, Norman Thomas (1884-1968), Nurse Kate Driver, Nurses, Nursing, Philip Fox La Follette (1897-1965), photograph albums, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. Douglas Stuart (1916-), Rochelle Pienn, Second Boer War (1899-1900), Siege of Ladysmith, Silver Legion of America, Silver Shirts, typescripts, Typhoid fever, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Wolfsonian fellows
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