Judging Pulps by Their Covers
• July 28, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, cataloging, collectors, donations, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic designers, interns, library donors, rare books and special collections library, romance, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: adventure stories, Argosy (magazine), blurbs, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, cover illustration art, damsels in distress, detectives, Dolores Hitchens, femininity, Frank Kane, gender issues, heteronormativity, Howard Schoenfeld, Let Them Eat Bullets (novel), masculinity, Michael Cuervo, Poisons Unknown (novel), pulp fiction, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Pulps, sex appeal, Stairway to an Empty Room (novel)
Charles Lindbergh: From Distinguished Flying Cross to the Dog House
• May 20, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, concentration camp, Ford Motor Company, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Crime of the Century", Adolf Hitler caricatures, air pilots, airedales, airmen, airplane production, airplanes, alternative histories, autobiographies, Charles Lindbergh, Distinguished Flying Cross, dogs, Envelopes, Finlay Matheson, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), heroes, hounds, kidnappings, Kristallnacht, Legion d'honneur, Lindbergh baby, Luftwaffe, media, Nazi Olympics, Nicholas Blaga, Olympic Games (Berlin : 1936), Philip Roth, pogroms, pulp magazines, Sheet music covers, Spirit of St. Louis, tapestries, terriers, The Ordeal of Oliver Airedale, The Plot Against America, transatlantic flights, World War II
From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martí MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
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
Zines for Progress
• March 2, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in displays, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zines
Tags: Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Francis Xavier Luca, Magazine covers, Mao Zedong, Miami Dade Schools, Periodicals, propaganda magazines, pulp magazines, Rochelle Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian regimes, typography
NOSTALGIA FOR CUBA: THE VICKI GOLD LEVI COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• May 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Cuba, curator, postcards, posters, Tobacco, Vicki Gold Levi
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1940s, 1950s, Cabarets, Casinos, Christian Larsen, cigars, Cuba, Cuban Nostalgia Fair, ephemera, gambling, Havana (Cuba), Nightclubs, Prohibition, pulp, pulp magazines, tourism, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection
PRIVATE DICKS, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, AND FEMME FATALES: PULP COVER ART AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, donations, erotic art, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, adultery, Avon pocket-sized books, Avon Publishing Company, “true crime” stories, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Best Western (magazine), Black Bat, Black Book Detective (magazine), Black Legion, Boardwalk Empire, Bride From Broadway (book), Broadway Virgin (book), BUtterfield 8 (book), caricatures, Censorship, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, damsels in distress, Dead As A Dinosaur (book), detectives, Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), fallen women, Famous Fantastic Mysteries (magazine), femme fatales, Film noir, Flynn's Detective Fiction (magazine), Francis Xavier Luca, G-Men Detective, gangsters, Georgie May (book), glossies, Greatest Detective Cases (magazine), heroes, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Ideal Love (magazine), James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), Leading Detective (magazine), Liberty (magazine), magazine cover art, magazine illustrators, Master Detective (magazine), Motion Picture Production Codes (Hays Codes), Movie trailers, murder, murder mysteries, Nazis, New Masses (magazine), Periodicals, Physical Culture (magazine), Physical Culture Movement, Popular Detective (magazine), pornography, prostitution, publishers, publishing moguls, pulp fiction, Pulp Fiction (film: 1994), pulp magazines, Pulps, Quentin Tarantino (film director), Robert J. Young (1928-2009), romance, See What I Mean? (book), serials, sex, slicks, spicy stories, Sunshine and Health (magazine), The Hucksters (book), Thrilling Detective (magazine), Trinity in Violence (book), Tropical Passions (book), True Confessions (magazine), True Detective (HBO series), True Detective (magazine), vice, Vicki Gold Levi, villains, Walter Popp, Wesley Snyder, Westerns
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