“All the World Is a Stage”: The Sketchbooks of Albert Wainwright
• August 19, 2023 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, collectors, curator, exhibitions, Fascism, fashion, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Britain, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, stickers, The Wolfsonian Library, theatre, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019 with the Girls Scouts
• March 19, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, curator, displays, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Physical culture, physical fitness, political art, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
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