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DICTATORS ON DISPLAY

• August 28, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Communists, Fascism
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, branding, dictators, Iron Fists, Joseph Stalin, propaganda, Steve Heller, totalitarian regimes

WHAT’S NEW WITH ART NOUVEAU?

• August 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), Eric M. Goldemberg, FIU School of Architecture, Joseph Maria Olbrich (Austrian 1867-1908), Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: Esposizione internazionale d'arte decorativa moderna (1902: Turin, Hector Guimard (1867-1942), Italy), Raimondo d'Aronco, World's Fairs

HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

• August 22, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in interns, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: Armando Suarez, Miriam Kashem

MAS*H, SOUTH AFRICAN STYLE

• August 21, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in donations, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection
Tags: combat doctors, Military medicine, nurses and nursing, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), South African War (1899-1902), surgical tents

DEVASTATING HURRICANE HITS MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA!

• August 14, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in donations, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1920s, Florida, Great Depression, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), hurricane season, La Domenica del Corriere (periodical), Land booms, Miami Beach, Michael Hughes

LIBRARIANS BOUYANT AS WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY IS AWASH IN OCEANS OF OCEAN LINER MATERIALS

• August 13, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in colonial tourism, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, passenger ships, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Around the world cruises, Costa Line (Genoa), cruise line industry, cruising, deck plans, log books, menus, Norddeutscher Lloyd, O.S.K. Line, ocean travel, passenger ships, S.S. Federico C., steamships, The Love Boat (TV show)

REMEMBER PORT ARTHUR! REMEMBER THE SHARFS!

• August 7, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Russia, Russo-Japanese War
Tags: Japan

BOXERS (IN BRIEF)

• August 5, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, rare books and special collections library
Tags: Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901)