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
It Must Not Happen Here
• August 28, 2020 • 4 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: Al Capone, American Fascists, American flag, assassinations, Black Lives Matter movement, book illustrators, COVID-19, dictatorships, fake news, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Flags, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, General Hugh Johnson, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. P. Morgan, lithographs, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal, Novels, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Satire, Sinclair Lewis, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
Radicals and Reactionaries: Extremism in America
• October 30, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, Children's propaganda books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curators, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Black Legion, caricatures, Communist Front, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert, Humphrey Bogart, James W. Ford, Jim Crowism, Karl Liebknecht, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, lynchings, NAACP, Nazi sympathizers, New Pioneer (magazine), poets, Popular Front, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial, Spartacus Uprising (1919), W. E. B. DuBois, William Randolph Hearst, Young Pioneers, youth movements
Back to Work with the New Deal
• April 14, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in AAA, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, curators, displays, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, WPA
Tags: AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Arsenal of Democracy, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), CPUSA, Duard Marshall (1914-2010), Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Federal funding for the Arts, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mural studies, murals, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal, NRA, Public Works Administration (PWA), PWA, Rosita Maria Sosa, shovels, Social Security, Socialism, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), Victor Candell (1903-1977), Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
Long Shot: Populist Politician and Presidential Contender Huey Pierce Long Assassinated This Day In History
• September 8, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, exhibitions, Fascism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: assassinations, bridges, crown of thorns, demogogues, Every Man A King (campaign song), Francis Xavier Luca, governors, Great Depression, highways, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ku Klux Klan, library installations, Louisiana, Populists, presidential contenders, presidential elections, Senators, Share Our Wealth society, The Politics of -Isms (library installation)
Political Isms: A New Wolfsonian Library Installation Opens To the Public
• August 18, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Fascism, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), Communism, Demagogues, Fascism, Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), isms, National Union for Social Justice, Nazism, presidential elections, Share the Wealth movement, Socialism, the "radio priest", William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, WWI, AND LITERATURE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• February 2, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American left artists, American war propaganda, Christopher DeNoon, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John and Ideal Gladstone, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Philippine American War, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Chain gangs, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, ephemera, Every Man A King, Francis Xavier Luca, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), labor movement, Labor unions, lynchings, My FIrst Days in the White House, Paul Muni (actor), playing cards, PWA (Public Works Administration), Rochelle Pienn, Share the Wealth, Sheet music covers, Spanish- American War of 1898, Spanish-American War, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Vicki Gold Levi, Victory Gold Levi Collection, Yankee Doodle in Berlin
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