VISUAL AND LITERARY ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY’S GREAT DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL COLLECTIONS
• September 10, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, American left artists, Artists, Blue eagle, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, WPA
Tags: "Every Man a King" (song), "forgotten man", Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Alfred Landon, Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Breadlines, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Comrade Gulliver: an illustrated account of travel into that strange country the United States of America (1935), Democrats, drought, Dust Bowl, Farm Security Administration (FSA), Federal Arts Project, Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Francis Xavier Luca, General Services Administration (GSA), Huey Long (1893-1935), Julie Redwine, Karl Marx Capital in Pictures (1933), Kathy Erickson, mural studies, My First Days in the White House / by Huey Long (1935), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), Old King Dole, Peter Clericuzio, political campaign literature, presidential contenders, Professor Carmela McIntire, Republicans, Resettlement Administration (RA), Share the Wealth, Sharecroppers, shovel-leaners, shovels, Tenant farmers, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHOUT OUT TO THE TVA! To Vend at Auction?
• May 22, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Living Newspaper, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, theatre, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Dams, Democrats, Electricity (bas relief), Elia Kazan (film director), ephemera, FDR, federal budgets, Federal Theatre Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, George William Norris (1861-1944), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), hydro-electric dams, Library of Congress, Living Newspaper, Mitchel Wolfson Jr., National Progressive Republican League, National Public Radio, NPR, postcards, posters, Power (Federal Theatre production), President Barack Obama, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential candidates, private power utility companies, Progressive liberal Republicans, Progressive Party, public power utilities, REA, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Republicans, Rural Electrification Act, Supreme Court, Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), TVA, Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), Wild River (1960)
A TALE OF TWO INTERNS
• August 22, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, interns, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, 2012 Presidential election, Alexander Gordon, Alfred Mossman Landon (1887-1987), campaign literature, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Communist dictators, Democratic donkey, Democrats, Edward Stratemeyer, electioneering, fascist dictators, Fear-mongering, Francis Xavier Luca, GOP elephant, Great Depression, Great Recession, guilt by association, Illustrated book bindings, internet, internships, Joselyn Naranjo, Mitt Romney, negative campaigns, North Iowa Tea Party billboards, Photoshop, political icons, political parties, President Barack Obama, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), presidential candidates, red-baiting, Republicans, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), smear campaigns, Socialism, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture
AFTER HOURS: VIP VISIT TO THE LIBRARY
• July 29, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Cuba, library donors, political art, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Cuban dictators, David and Caroline Cardenas, El Encanto (department store), Fidel Castro, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Havana Hilton, Hotel Varadero, Ideal Gladstone, John Russell Pope, Jr., Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson, political parties, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Republicans, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade
