Behind the Scenes of a Wolfsonian Library Installation Examining the Dust Bowl
• December 20, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, curators, Disaster relief, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FAP, FDR, Federal Art Project (FAP), FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, postcards, posters, reception, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: 1919-1939, Alexandre Hogue, Amal Albaladejo, America & Movies: Between the Wars, black blizzards, buffalo hunt, Buffalo nickel, Burr Singer, Carlos Manuel Bleiker Morcillo, Children's books, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, drought, Dust Bowl, Dust Bowl refugees, dust pneumonia, dust storms, Dwayne Krier, Ecological crises, Erskine Caldwell, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FSA sanitary camps, George Lee, Golden Gate International Exhibition (San Francisco: 1939-1940), grasslands, Helen West Heller (1872-1955), Homestead Act of 1862, Indian Court Federal Building, Jeffrey Gold, land speculators, Louis Siegriest, Margaret Bourke-White, Missouri Woman (painting), Naomi Averill, Pennsylvania Writers' Project, Photographers, Plains Indians, railroad companies, Receptions, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), sand dunes, Soil Conservation Act (April 1935), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), Soil Erosion Service (SCS), Sophia Medina, Steve Forero-Paz, the Great Plains, Valentina Berrio, wheat farms, William Kramer
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
POSTERS, PICTOGRAPHS, PICTOGRAMS, AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 17, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, archives, Artists, book art, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), student curators, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American-flag shipping, An Official Guide to the Army Air Forces, Booklets, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FIU Professor Ken Lipartito, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Greenbelt Towns: A Demonstration in Suburban Planning, Guide for Members of REA Cooperatives, Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Lester Beall (1903-1969), Little Waters: A Study of Headwater Streams & Other Little Waters, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, Michael Golec, Migrants of the Crops, Pictograms, Pictographs, Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, posters, Public History, Resettlement Administration (RA), Robert T. Beall (REA economist), Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Sand in Their Boots, Sarah Rovang, shipbuilding, Statistically-Speaking (Wolfsonian library exhibit), statistics, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Their Use and Relations to the Land, U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Maritime Commission
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)
ENVIRONMENTALISM, THEN AND NOW
• October 19, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Black Sunday", black blizzards, Burr Singer (1912-1992), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, climate change, deforestation, Dust Bowl, dust storms, dusters, Ecological crises, Everglades National Park, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugh Hammond Bennett, Manifest and Mundane: Scenes of Modern America from the Wolfsonian Collection, Pauline Winick, reforestation, Resettlement Administration (RA), Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ), Soil Conservation Service (SCS), soil erosion, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The Great Depression and new Deal Americana, Virginia Berresford (1904-1995)
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 