Behind the Scenes of a Wolfsonian Library Installation Examining the Dust Bowl
• December 20, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curators, Disaster relief, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, postcards, posters, reception, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: 1919-1939, Alexandre Hogue, Amal Albaladejo, America & Movies: Between the Wars, black blizzards, buffalo hunt, Buffalo nickel, Burr Singer, Carlos Manuel Bleiker Morcillo, Children's books, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, drought, Dust Bowl, Dust Bowl refugees, dust pneumonia, dust storms, Dwayne Krier, Ecological crises, Erskine Caldwell, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FSA sanitary camps, George Lee, Golden Gate International Exhibition (San Francisco: 1939-1940), grasslands, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Homestead Act of 1862, Indian Court Federal Building, Jeffrey Gold, land speculators, Louis Siegriest, Margaret Bourke-White, Missouri Woman (painting), Naomi Averill, Pennsylvania Writers' Project, Photographers, Plains Indians, railroad companies, Receptions, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), sand dunes, Soil Conservation Act (April 1935), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Sophia Medina, Steve Forero-Paz, the Great Plains, Valentina Berrio, wheat farms, William Kramer
EAGLE VERSUS TURKEY: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• November 27, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, children's books, collectors, donations, Federal One, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Addams Family Values (film: 1993), Bald eagle, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Block books, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonists, Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964), Federal Arts Project (FAP), Founding fathers, Francis Xavier Luca, Helen Johnson, Illustrated children's books, Indians, Iowa Craft Project, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Linoleum block illustrations, Maud Fuller Petersham (1890-1971), Miska Petersham (1888-1960), Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, Naomi Averill, national emblems, national symbols, New Deal art, Pilgrims, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, rag books, Saalfield Muslin books, settlers, Thanksgiving, turkeys, Wood cuts, Work Projects Administration (WPA)
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