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)
Unhappy Anniversary: The Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic
• April 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1912, Disasters at sea, Icebergs, lifeboats, Margin of Error (Wolfsonian exhibition), ocean liners, paperbacks, passenger ships, polar bears, R.M.S. Titanic, sinkings, White Star Line
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