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 WINTER FLURRY OF UNIVERSITY FACULTY AND STUDENT VISITORS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 24, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertisements, Andre Durenceau (1904-1985), Architects, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, automobile engines, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Crystal Palace Exhibition (1851 : London), designers, dragons, Empire Builder, ephemera, exhibitions, Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), Glacier National Park, Grammar of Ornament / by Owen Jones, graphic artists, Great Depression, Great Northern Railway, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Holland Robinson, Industrial design, Installation Art, Kiosks, locomotives, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), mechanical works, North American Indians in art, Oriental Line, Pochoir plates, postcards, Prairie Style (Architecture), Space Society and the Digital, Store window displays, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (1851 : London), Tori Arpad-Cotta, transparencies, typewriters, Wasmuth Portfolio, William (“Bill”) Bradley (1868-1962), Winifred Elysse Newman, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wood and linoleum block printing, Works Progress Administration, WPA
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