From Prohibition and Flappers to New Dealers and the Lunatic Fringe: Wolfsonian Library Collection Highlights
• November 21, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, bars, Blue eagle, Cuba, donations, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, programs, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: African-Americans, alcoholism, Alfred E. Neuman, beer, bootleggers, Carteles (magazine), Christopher DeNoon, Communists, Conrado Walter Massaguer, Cuba, Demagogues, Eleanor Roosevelt, fans, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Music Project (FMP), Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flappers, Francis Townsend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, gangsters, Gibson Girls, Great Depression, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Jazz Age, Mad magazine mascot, National Recovery Administration, New Deal art, new woman ideal, NRA, postcards, Prohibition (1919-1933), rum runners, sheet music, Sheet music covers, Social (magazine), Socialists, speakeasies, the New Boy, Upton Sinclair, Vicki Gold Levi, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA
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)