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
A March and a Dream Deferred
• January 17, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, donations, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, political art, racism
Tags: 1960s, Asa Philip Randolph (1869-1979), Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, Civil Rights Act (1964), defense industries, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Executive Order 8802, Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), Francis Xavier Luca, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), National Voting Rights Act (1965), North Star Shining (book), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Harry Truman, Segregation in the military, Socialists, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The Messenger (magazine), union organizers
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
Celebrating Black History Month
• February 28, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, bindings, book art, children's books, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal era, political art, Popular Front, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: African American history, African-American heroes, African-American role models, African-Americans, American League Against War and Fascism, August Mecklem Estate, Black History Month, calendars, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Crypt Cracking, family life, Frederic Douglass, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Harlem, Harriet Tubman, heroes, Into the Stacks, Joe Louis, Knight Foundation, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), May McNeer, Nathaniel Sandler, North Star Shining / by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Novels, Patricia Frisella, poetry, protest poetry, race, racism, segregation, Socialism, Socialists, sociology, The Darker Brother / by Bucklin Moon, The Great Migration, The Negro Family / by E. Franklin Frazier, The Third Generation / by Chester B. Himes, Upsurge / by Robert Gessner, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood block prints, wood engraving
Civil Rights and the CPUSA
• January 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Angelo Herndon, Atlanta (Georgia), Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., Black "Reds", Black Communist, Booker T. Washington, Chain gangs, civil rights activists, Communist Party candidates, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dixiecrats, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Federal Anti-Lynching bill, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), First Ladies, foreclosures, Georgia Insurrection Law, hobos, Hunter Pitts ("Jack") O'Dell, James W. Ford, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, legal cases, lynchings, mass demonstrations, Nathaniel Candelario, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Paul Robeson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Rape trials, Richard Wright, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sharecroppers, Socialists, South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Stanley Levison, Tenant farmers, The Daily Worker (periodical), The Negro Liberator (newspaper), Tom Mooney, Tuskegee airmen, Unemployment Council, vagrancy
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
CARTOONS FOR THE CAUSE: COMMUNIST CARTOONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 4, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aesop Said So, blue collar workers, British Arts & Crafts Movement, Capitalists, caricatures, cartoons, Class struggle, Clive Weed, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, CPUSA, George Grosz (1893-1959), Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), Great Depression, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), illustrators, John Pierpoint Morgan (1837-1913), Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Pictures, Linocuts, lithographs, Lucienne Bloch (1909-1999), National Socialism, Nazis, Robert Miner, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialism, Socialists, Soviet Union, Spartakus uprising (1919), Stock Market Crash (October 1929), The Mirrors of Wall Street, Tim Benson, Top hats, totalitarianism, Walter Crane (1845-1915), white collar workers, William Gropper (1897-1977), WWI, WWII
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 1930s: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 28, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African American history, American League Against War and Fascism, anti-lynching campaigns, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Brian Orfall, Cartoonists, civil rights, civil rights activists, Communist organizers, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Communists, David Almeida, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. Edgar Hoover, Jack O'Dell, James W. Ford, Linocuts, lithographs, lynchings, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Martijn F. Lecoultre, MLK, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Negro Rights, North Star Shining, Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Socialists, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), vice presidential candidates, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood engravings
WOLFSONIAN TALK, WORKSHOP, AND TEEN COMIC CRITIQUE WITH DENNIS CALERO
• April 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, collectors, Communism, Communists, documentaries, donations, Fascism, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Japan, Japanese Empire, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, Axis, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), Batman, Cartoonists, cartoons, Chiang Kai Shek (1887–1975), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comic books, Comic Kraze, comics, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, Dennis Calero, Digital art, Film noir, FIU Professor Bernadine Heller-Greenman, Francis Xavier Luca, German Expressionism, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Hans Alexander Mueller, Harry Bridges (1901-1990), Harry Ward (1873–1966), Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), labor leaders, labor un, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Marvel Comics, New World School of the Arts, O Brother Man: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward, Patriotism, Photoshop, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, promised gifts, Pulbic talks, Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Silent film, Socialists, Steven King's The Little Green God of Agony, strikes, Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), The Communist Manifesto in pictures, unions, War bonds, Web comics, West Coast Longshoremen, wood engravers, wood engraving, X-Men Noir
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
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