“Sam-I-Am”: The Passing of Cartoonist Sam Gross
• May 19, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, museums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "The Scream", accountants, animals, Cartoonists, cartoons, Charlie Chaplin, City College, Cosmopolitan (magazine), CPAs, death and taxes, Francis Xavier Luca, Grim Reaper, immigrants, library installations, National Lampoon (magazine), neo-Nazis, Sam Gross, Satire, Swastikas, The Bronx (New York), The Comics Journal, The Immigrant (silent film), The New Yorker (magazine), The Realist (magazine), Tyrants and Terrorists: Satirists Bite Back (Wolfsonian Library installation), wind-up dolls
Happy Days Are Here Again: Prohibition Repealed This Day In 1933
• December 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Blue eagle, Cuba, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, prohibition, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
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