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
COMMEMORATING ASSASSINATED U.S. PRESIDENTS: SOME IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, collectors, donations, gifts, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alexander Berkman, Alexander Doyle (1857-1922), American Bank Note Company of New York, Anarchists, assassinations, Canton (Ohio), Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), Charles Guiteau, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), commemorations, Electrical lighting, Emma Goldman, Ford’s Theater, George C. Domke, George Keller (1842-1935), Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), James Garfield (1831-1881), Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), Leon Czolgosz, Lincoln Village (Chicago world's fair 1933), log cabins, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), President John F. Kennedy, Presidential assassinations, Presidential inaugurations, replicas, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ruth Kruger, Sculptors, Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington D.C., The Wigwam (convention center), Tickets, U.S. presidents, William McKinley (1843-1901), Woodcuts, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago Ill), X-ray machines
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U. S. POSTAL SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• February 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American artists, Benjamin Franklin, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Cachets, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Envelopes, First Day covers, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, George Washington on stamps, Great Depression, Home front, Miss Liberty, muralists, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal America, Philately, Phoenix (Mythical bird), Post Office, postcards, Postmarks, Postmaster General, President George Washington, President's Day, Stage coaches in art, stamp-collecting, stamps, Statue of Liberty National Monument, U.S. Postal Service, V-J Day (1945), Victory Gold Levi Collection, Victory sign, Woodcuts
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