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
The Tropicana Nightclub and How Cuban Women Fared Before, During, and After Fidel
• November 30, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Communists, Cuba, dance, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, photography, postcards, posters, programs, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: "new woman", 1933, afrocubanismo, Ala Izquierda Estudiantil, American imperialism, Anacaona (band), Anacaona (Haitian cacica), Arcos de Cristal, Auténtico Party, barbudos, bobbed hair, burlesque, Cabarets, Carnival, Carteles (magazine), Casinos, Charles Gibson, choreographers, Cold War, Concepción (“Cuchito”) Castro Zaldarriaga, Conrado Walter Massaguer, corruption, counterrevolutionaries, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban musicians, Cuban presidents, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), Cuban Republic, Cuban Research Institute, Cuban-American filmmakers, dancers, Department of Social Ills, dictators, documentaries, Eden Concert, Errol Flynn, ethnicity, fans, Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, Federación Democrática de Mujeres Cubanas, female musicians, feminists, Fidel Castro, flappers, Folies Bergere, Frente Cívico de Mujeres Martianas (FCMM), gambling, gangsters, gender, Gerardo Machado (1871-1939), Gibson Girls, girl bands, Havana, Havana (Cuba), Hermandad de Madres de Marta Abreu, I Am Cuba (film), impresarios, JFK Library (Hialeah), jineteras, Life (magazine), Manuel Urrutia, Marianao (Cuba), Martin Fox, Massa-Girls, Miguelito Valdés, models, Mujeres Oposicionistas Unidas (M.O.U.), mulattas, musicians, Nightclubs, Ortodoxo party, performers, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Prostitutes, prostitution, race, Ramón Grau, reeducation, rehabilitation, revolution, revolutionaries, Rita Montaner, Roderico Neyra, Rompiendo las Cadenas (film), rumba, singers, Social (magazine), Soy Cuba (film), striptease, Tetro Shanghai, tourists, Tropicana, Tropicana (Nightclub), vedettes, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victor de Correa, vintage photographs, We Were Strangers (film), women
Conrado Massaguer Exhibition on Google Arts and Culture
• December 22, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Artists, collectors, Cuba, curator, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: "new woman", Alcohol ads, Allies, American tourists in U.S.S.R, Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Art directors, Axis, bobbed hair, caricature, caricatures, caricaturists, Carteles (magazine), celebrities, Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Coca-cola, Collier's (magazine), Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban exiles, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), Dr. Eugenio Molinet Amoros, Erol Flynn, Fidel Castro, flappers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerardo Machado, Gibson Girls, Google Arts and Culture, Grafico (magazine), Havana, John Nance Garner, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Lili Damita, Magazine covers, Mahatma Gandhi, Massa-Girls, Massaguer family, Maurice Chevalier, Merida (Mexico), Modern art, movie stars, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), photographs, politicians, publishers, Santa Claus, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Social (magazine), Three Wise Men, tourism, tourist trade, virtual exhibitions, William Powell, world leaders
The Artwork and Caricatures of Conrado Walter Massaguer
• May 31, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, Cuba, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, promotional materials, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: "new woman", Advertisements, Allied leaders, Art directors, artists, Bacardi, bellboys, Benito Mussolini, bobbed hair, Calvin Coolidge, caricatures, caricaturists, carousels, Carteles (magazine), Casino Nacional (Havana Cuba), celebrities, Censorship, Charles Dana Gibson, Charlie Chaplin, Che Guevara, Collier's (magazine), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cosmo Hamilton's People Worth Talking About (book), Cuba, Cuban pavilion, Cuban presidents, Cuban Republic, Cubans, Delphic Studio (New York City), dominos, El Figaro (magazine), Emilio Cueto, Fidel Castro, flappers, Fulgencio Batista, Gerardo Machado, Ghandi, Gibson Girls, Grafico (magazine), Great Depression, Greta Garbo, Guignol (book), Havana, Havana (Cuba), Havana Ateneo, high society, honeymoon, Jaime Valls, Keseven Anuncios (Advertising firm), King Features Syndicate, La Primera Exposicion de Humor, Laredo Bru, League of Nations, Leonard Finger, Life (magazine), Magazines, Maltina, Mana-Zucca, Mario G. Menocal, Massa-Girls, Maurice Chevelier, Mercurio (Advertising firm), Merida, merry-go-rounds, Mexico, Miami Music Club, Mimi Aguglia, Minoristas (group of artists), modernists, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, New York City, New York Military Academy, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), NRA, Oscar Massaguer, publishers, Ramiro Fernandez, revolutionaries, Rudyard Kipling, rumba dancers, rumberas, Santa Claus, sexual liberation, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Son Cubano, Stock Market Crash, The Miami News (newspaper), The New Tropic, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Today (magazine), tourism, tourist trade, tourists, trend-setters, Waldorf-Astoria, women, world leaders, Yucatan
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
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