Tagged: poster
Time for Spooky Tales
Seasonal library poster by Albert M. Bender, Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago, ca. 1940, via the Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98509532/.[/caption]
Fundraising for Cancer Research
American Cancer Society poster, ca. 1951, by Walter H. Aliner, digitized at Library of Congress, PPOC, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646816[/caption]
Political Interpretations of Knowledge in Colonial Contexts
In the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of the “knowledge society” (Wissensgesellschaft ) rapidly gained in popularity among social scientists and politicians in Western countries.[1] The concept referred to a socioeconomic system that was no longer organized around the manufacture of material—especially industrial—goods but instead around the production of knowledge, expertise, and highly specialized skills. Continue reading
Celebrating Technology at the 1933–34 World’s Fair
Poster urging people to attend the Century of Progress International Exposition in 1933–34. The “bright” metaphor encompassed both the technological “progress” that was the focus of the fair and the diversity of resulting consumer goods presented in a striking array of colors. Source: Library of Congress, PPOC, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646779/. On the “bright” metaphor, see Regina Lee Blaszczyk and Uwe Spiekermann, eds., Bright Modernity: Color, Commerce, and Consumer Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).[/caption]
Spreading the Good News: International Family-Planning Activism and Grassroots Information Networks in the 20th Century
In August 1939, the newly formed Jamaica Birth Control League opened the island’s first birth control clinic in Kingston to distribute diaphragms at cost or free to working-class women. To advertise their services, the League published a small, discreet notice in the “Wanted” section of the Daily Gleaner, the island’s main newspaper. Within a year … Continue reading
Rodin’s Thinker, the New Deal, and Libraries as Spaces of Knowledge
Commenting on his famous work Le Penseur, or The Thinker, a century ago, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin described his subject in terms of its utter (masculine) physicality. “What makes my Thinker think is that he...
Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production
In 1903, the Austrian journalist Emil Löbl observed that “many of today’s readers” see their newspaper as a “universal encyclopedia,” the study of which, they believed, satisfied their duty as “cultivated people” (Kulturmenschen) to...
Knowledge and Citizenship
Caryn McTighe Musil at the Association of American Colleges and Universities has written a short programatic article on what the humanities can offer in current disputes over immigration in the United States. Her recommendation...
‘Knowledge is Power’
Hans Lindenstaedt, “Wissen ist Macht” (Knowledge is Power), pre-1914 Source: Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, no. 14050132. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE[/caption]
