“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
Tags: actors, Albert Wainwright (1893-1943), altarboys, Anne Bolyn, artist models, Balillas, carabinieri, Castleford (England), choirboys, Clippings, Collages, costume design, costume designers, costumes, Fascist youth, Florrie Forde, Gondolas, Hamburg (Germany), Henry Moore, Henry VIII, Heywood-Wakefield Company, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, Katherine of Aragon, Labels, Leeds, Leeds College of Art, library installations, Luneburg, Magdeburg, male models, Marco Polo Bridge (Venice), memorabilia, Milan (Italy), models, performers, Robin Hood's Bay (North Yorkshire), sailors, set design, singers, Sketchbooks, Stickers, Theater design, theatrical sets, Venetian canals, Venice (Italy), watercolors, West Yorkshire (England), young men
First Among Photographers, Margaret Bourke-White
• June 14, 2021 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, photography, racism, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), skyscrapers, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, War Photography, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: "Men and Machines" (exhibition : NY : 1930), Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Americanization, Americanization classes, Anti-Religious Museum (Moscow), Breadlines, Buchenwald (concentration camp), Central Europe, Chain gangs, Cold War, Czechoslovakia, Dams, Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly (book : 1945), drought, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Erskine Caldwell, Eyes on Russia (book : 1931), factories, Farm Security Administration photographs, FDR, Female steel workers, Five Year Plan, floods, Fort Peck Dam, Fortune (magazine), gargoyles, Great Depression, Gypsies, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), heads of state, Henry Luce, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hungary, industrial workers, industry, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Korean War, Kremlin, Liebensraum, Life (magazine), Lifeboat (film : 1944), lifeboats, machines, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), McCarthyism, Moravia, Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, North of the Danube (book : 1939), Nursing, One Thing Leads to Another: The Growth of an Industry (book : 1936), Photographers, Popular Front, racism, Red Scare, Rockefeller Centre, Roosevelt Administration, rural poverty, Russia at War (book : 1942), Russian front, Say Is This the U.S.A. (book : 1941), schools, segregation, shacks, Sharecroppers, Slovakia, soil erosion, solvents, South, Soviet Union, Statue of Liberty, steel workers, Tenant farmers, They Called It "Purple Heart Valley" (book : 1944), War photography, welders, workers, You Have Seen Their Faces (book : 1937)
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
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boy Scouts, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), delinquency, Eleanor Roosevelt, Figli della Lupa (Children of the she-wolf), forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gender equality, gender issues, Gender roles, Girl Scout Troop 1239, Girl scouts, Great Britain, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, International Women's Day (March 8 2019), Joel Hoffman, League of Nations (10th Assembly 1929), male chauvinism, militarization of youth, Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, National Forests, National Parks, National Youth Administration (NYA), Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), sexism, Shoshana Resnikoff, State Parks, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Sylvia Pankhurst, tree-planting, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Wild Boys of the Road (1933 film trailer), Young Pioneers
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