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
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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