CCC Reboot
• May 20, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, memorabilia, mimeography, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, The Wolfsonian Library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1933, annuals, Boy Scouts, CCC camps, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), climate change, conservation work, delinquency, depressions, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Global warming, homelessness, National Forests, National Parks, natural disasters, natural resources, nature, planting trees, President Joseph Biden, riding the rails, State forests, State Parks, trees, Unemployed, wilderness
Celebrating Earth Day 2020, COVID-19 Style
• April 16, 2020 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, AAA, Artists, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Disaster relief, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, postcards, posters, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian staff, WPA, youth movements
Tags: "See America First" campaign, Bathing suits, black blizzards, board games, Boy Scouts, Canals, CCC camps, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), conservation, Corona virus, covid 19, dredging, Dust Bowl, dust pneumonia, Dust Pneumonia Blues, dust storms, Earth Day 1970, Earth Day 2020, forest fires, forestry, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gifford Pinchot, Great Depression, John Muir, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Lincoln Hotel, mangrove swamp, manuals, Miami Beach (Florida), National Forests, National Park Service, National Parks, natural resources, Omar Khayyam, preservation, real estate promoters, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), SCS, Sierra Club, soil erosion, Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Swimsuits, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Unemployment, Walter Crane, Woody Guthrie, Yellowstone National Park
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019 with the Girls Scouts
• March 19, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, curator, displays, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Physical culture, physical fitness, political art, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), women, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boy Scouts, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), delinquency, Eleanor Roosevelt, Figli della Lupa (Children of the she-wolf), forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gender equality, gender issues, Gender roles, Girl Scout Troop 1239, Girl scouts, Great Britain, Hitler Jugend, Hitler Youth, International Women's Day (March 8 2019), Joel Hoffman, League of Nations (10th Assembly 1929), male chauvinism, militarization of youth, Mocidade Portuguesa Feminina, National Forests, National Parks, National Youth Administration (NYA), Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), sexism, Shoshana Resnikoff, State Parks, Suffragettes, Suffragists, Sylvia Pankhurst, tree-planting, Violet Oakley (1874-1961), Wild Boys of the Road (1933 film trailer), Young Pioneers
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
Return of the Natives
• October 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, colonialism, curators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibit cases, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Advertisements, American Indians, Blackfeet Indians, Christopher Columbus, colonials, Color lithography, commercial art, cultural appropriation, Empire route, Eric Simon, Everglades National Park, Exoticism, feather headresses, Francis Xavier Luca, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Great Northern Railroad, Great Nothern Railway, Hopi Indians, Indians, indigenous peoples, Jamestown Exposition (1907), National Parks, Native Americans, Native Americans America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), native peoples, Navajo Indians, Oglala Sioux, Ojibwa, Peace pipes, Pocahontas, product advertising, Pueblo Indians, Railroads, Red Cloud (1822-1909), Red Cloud Stogies, Santa Fe Line, Schlegel Litho., Scotten Dillon (Detroit MI), Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising (Wolfsonian library installation), Seminole Indians, smoking, Temple Beth Am Day School, Tobacco, tobacco advertising, tobacco products, Treaty of Fort Laramie (1869), Woodland Indians, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago)
A Farewell to Arms and Welcome to “Railroaded” Indians
• July 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), American Indians, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, California Limited, Charles L. Marshall Jr., corn dance ceremony, decoration, Empire route, feather headresses, femme fatales, Francis Luca, Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Hopi Indians, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Indians, indigenous peoples, Kachina dolls, Louis W. Hill, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, mosaics, murals, National Parks, Native Americans, native peoples, Navajos, ornament, ornamental metal sculpture, Paul Cret, Pikuni and Kainah Blackfeet Indians, playing cards, portfolio plates, portraits, promotional literature, Pueblo Indians, railroad executives, Railroads, redheads, Richard L. Tooke, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Santa Fe Line, See America campaign, Union Terminal Station (Cincinnati Ohio), Vicki Gold Levi, William Penhallow Henderson, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
A Wolfsonian Happy Birthday Tribute to Yellowstone National Park
• March 1, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, photography, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1871 Yellowstone expedition, Charles Marshall Jr., color lithographic prints, Colter's Hell, Detroit Photographic Company, domestic tourism, Francis Xavier Luca, fur trappers, geysers, Howard Gottlieb, John Colter, mountain men, National Parks, Native Americans, Photochroms, President Ulysses S. Grant, Railroads, souvenir folders, souvenir viewbooks, The Yellowstone Act of 1872, Thomas Moran, tourism, travel, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Yellowstone National Park
BIG GAME HUNTING AND “WILD ANIMAL” SPECTACLES IN THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
• July 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Abbott and Costello, Africa Screams (film: 1949), Animals Are Like That (book: 1939), big game hunting, black maned lion, Botswana, Bring 'em Back Alive (book: 1930), Bring 'Em Back Alive (film: 1932), Cecil the lion, Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonialism, dentists, Entertainment, Fang and Claw (book: 1935), Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck (1884-1950), Frank Buck's Jungle Camp, game preserves, George Lipscombe, International exhibitions, Jacare (film: 1942), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Joseph Marro, Jungle Camp, Jungle Cavalcade (film: 1941), King Juan Carlos of Spain, Kubwa Simba (children's book: 1941), Masai warriors, Midways, National Parks, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), On Jungle Trails (book: 1936), pith helmets, Poachers, poaching, posters, safaris, Tiger Fangs (film: 1943), trophy hunting, Walter Palmer, wild animal collectors, Wild Cargo (book: 1932), Wild Cargo (film: 1934), World's Fairs, WPA New Reading Materials Program, Zimbabwe, zoos
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK!
• August 24, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 125th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American bison, Arts and Crafts movement, Boo Boo Bear, Buffalo, East Aurora, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Howard Gottlieb, National Park Service, National Parks, New York, Old Faithful, Photochroms (color lithographic prints), the Roycrofters, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), wood block prints, wood engravers, Yellowstone National Park, Yogi Bear
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