On this day in history, 1932: The Bonus Marchers Are Driven Out of Washington, D.C.
• July 28, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, book art, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, donations, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, The Wolfsonian Library, veterans, World War I
Tags: 1932, Anacostia Flats, Armed Forces, BEF, Bonus Army, bonus bill, Bonus Expeditionary Forces (BEF), Bonus March, Capitol building, cavalrymen, demonstrations, ephemera, ex-servicemen, Francis Xavier Luca, Gabriel Over the White House (Film : 1933), General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Great Depression, Hoovervilles, House of Representatives, Lafayette Park, landslide elections, Major-General Smedley Butler, Patman Veterans Bill, Police, postcards, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), presidential elections, protestors, rioting, Shanty towns, Tanks, teargas, The Washington Merry-Go-Round (Film : 1932), U.S. Senate, veterans, Walter W. Walters, Washington D.C., William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
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
Out From The Shadows: Pulp Periodicals And Paperbacks
• May 10, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Anti-Nazi propaganda, colonial propaganda, donations, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Japanese Empire, library donors, Middle East, museums, Orientalism, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: “true crime” stories, detectives, Erica Melamed, femme fatales, Film noir, G-men, gangsters, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Japanese militarists, Joseph Perez, kidnappers, Mauriel Fernandez, men's literature, Middle Easterns, murder, Nazis, North Africans, Orientalism, paperbacks, Police, pre-code Hollywood, Prostitutes, pulp magazines, Receptions, romance, sex, sexualization of women, Tiffany Breslawski, violence
MAY DAY: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS PROMPTED BY THE GARMENT WORKER TRAGEDY IN BANGLADESH AND RIOTS IN SEATTLE
• May 2, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communism, Communists, fashion, FDR, Great Depression, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Adolph Fischer (1858–1887), Albert Richard Parsons (1848-1887), Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American Federation of Labor, Anarchism, Anarchists, August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), Bangladesh, Bangladesh building collapse, Bombs, Central Labor Union of Chicago, Chicago, Dangerous working conditions, demonstrations, Eight Hour Association, Garment industry, George Engel (1836-1887), Haymarket Square (Chicago), Industrial disasters, Knights of Labor, labor leaders, labor movement, Labor unions, Mass meetings, May Day, McCormick Reaper Works (Chicago), National Labor Relations Act of 1935, Police, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Radicals, Riots, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialist Labor Party, Sting, strikes, Sweat shops, Sweatshops, Textile Workers Union of America, The Police (musical group), Third World, Vandalism, violence, Wagner Act
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