Lynd Ward’s Graphic Novels of the Depression Decade
• January 23, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Great Depression, Honor's College, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, skyscrapers, slums, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Alois Kolb, anxiety, artists, Black Lives Matter, capitalist critiques, Death, demonstrations, expectant mothers, factories, Fascism, Faust, Frans Masereel, Georg A. Mathey, German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts (1929), graphic novels, Great Depression, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry F. Ward, homelessness, industrial buildings, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), lynchings, Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (1930), Militarism, National Academy of Graphic Arts (Leipzig), National Guard, Police, Prelude to a Million Years: A Book of Wood Engravings (1933), protests, relief lines, rollercoasters, sequential art storytelling, slave trade, slavery, smokestacks, social unrest, Socialists, Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood (1936), starvation, strikes, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Vertigo: A Novel in Woodcuts (1937), vigilantes, violence, Wild Pilgrimage: A Novel in Woodcuts (1932), wood engravers, wood engraving, Woodcuts, wordless novels
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
Civil Rights and the CPUSA
• January 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Angelo Herndon, Atlanta (Georgia), Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., Black "Reds", Black Communist, Booker T. Washington, Chain gangs, civil rights activists, Communist Party candidates, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dixiecrats, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Federal Anti-Lynching bill, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), First Ladies, foreclosures, Georgia Insurrection Law, hobos, Hunter Pitts ("Jack") O'Dell, James W. Ford, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, legal cases, lynchings, mass demonstrations, Nathaniel Candelario, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Paul Robeson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Rape trials, Richard Wright, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sharecroppers, Socialists, South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Stanley Levison, Tenant farmers, The Daily Worker (periodical), The Negro Liberator (newspaper), Tom Mooney, Tuskegee airmen, Unemployment Council, vagrancy
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Recent Florida International University Class Visits to The Wolfsonian Library
• February 10, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, posters, prohibition, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II
Tags: 1930s, Adolf Hitler, African-Americans, anti-lynching campaigns, Autobahn, Blues, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) International Labor Defense (ILD), Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, highways, infrastructure construction, Jazz, lynchings, memory, New Deal, New Negro, race, Race trials, racism, railways, roads, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, U.S. One
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 1930s: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 28, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African American history, American League Against War and Fascism, anti-lynching campaigns, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Brian Orfall, Cartoonists, civil rights, civil rights activists, Communist organizers, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Communists, David Almeida, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. Edgar Hoover, Jack O'Dell, James W. Ford, Linocuts, lithographs, lynchings, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Martijn F. Lecoultre, MLK, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Negro Rights, North Star Shining, Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Socialists, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), vice presidential candidates, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood engravings
WHAT’S TWICE AS BAD AS THE GREAT DEPRESSION? THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE 1930s
• September 19, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, African American History, American left artists, Aryans, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Federal Writers' Project, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Florida Writers' Project, FTP, FWP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), Joe Louis, leftist artists, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: 1930s, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), anti-lynching campaigns, civil rights, Civil Works Administration (CWA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Copperheads, Costian-Wagner Bill, Fair Employment Act, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hugo Gellert, International Labor Defense (ILD), James Ford, Joe Louis, Louis Hines (1874-1940), lynchings, Martin Dies, Max Schmeling, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Negro Rights, New Deal, Public Works Administration (PWA), Race trials, racism, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sectionalism, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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
CIVIL RIGHTS DISPLAY FOR BROWNSVILLE STUDENT VISITORS
• January 21, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, FAP, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Great Depression, Joe Louis, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, programs, propaganda posters, racism, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1919, African American history, African-Americans, Anti-lynching campaign, athletes, Brownsville Middle School, civil rights, civil rights activists, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Jesse Owens (1913-1980), Joe Louis, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings, N.A.A.C.P., race riots, racial stereotypes, recruiting posters, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, W.E.B. Du Bois, Woodrow Wilson
SCOTTSBORO TRIAL OF THE 1930s: HEYDAY OF THE CPUSA
• March 24, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: 1930s, Alex Lichtenstein, Anti-lynching campaign, Communist Pary of the United States (CPUSA), Costian-Wagner Bill, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), lynchings, New Deal, Race trials, racism, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), The Politics of Race on Trial
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 