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THE OCEAN LINER AUSONIA, AWAITING SCRAPPING IN INDIA, SEEN IN HAPPIER TIMES

• September 30, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in collectors, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Laurence Miller Collection, ocean liners, promotional materials, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection
Tags: Adriatica Line (Venice), Ausonia

“THE PLAY’S THE THING!”

• September 29, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, Ethiopia, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), gifts, It Can't Happen Here, Living Newspaper, Macbeth, New Deal (1933-1939), playbills, The Cradle Will Rock, WPA
Tags: Federal Theatre Project (FTP), Hallie Flanagan (1890-1969), Orson Welles (1915-1985), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

WHEN THE “PACIFIC” WAS ANYTHING BUT…

• September 25, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in propaganda, World War II, WWII
Tags: Aircraft carriers, Aristotle Ares, leaflets, Pacific campaign, sailors, U.S. navy, USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier)

CCC? SÍ

• September 24, 2010 • 5 Comments

Posted in CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, donations, gifts, NRA, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: Christopher DeNoon, New Deal, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture

SPEED LIMITS COMES TO THE WOLFSONIAN

• September 15, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in SPEED Limits, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: assembly line production, Charlie Chaplin, I love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Modern Times

EPHEMERAL ITEMS SERVING AS “CULTURAL ARTIFACTS”

• September 11, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in FIU, Florida International University students, Honor's College
Tags: ephemera

OF GILL AND GUILDS

• September 10, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in FIU, FIU School of Architecture, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: artist colonies, Arts & Crafts movement, Dennis Doordan, Eric Gill (1882-1940), fine press, Guilds, Mellon grant, St. Joseph and St. Dominic

INTERIOR DESIGN AND DECORATION, PAST AND PRESENT

• September 5, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in pochoirs, Unrealized architecture exhibit, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), interior decoration, interior design, Leopold Bauer (1872-1938), Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865-1945), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864-1933), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Home Design & Remodeling Show, Unrealized Architecture (library exhibit)

LIFE’S A BALL

• September 4, 2010 • 3 Comments

Posted in Austria, dance cards, Florida International University students, Joseph Patrouch, Vienna
Tags: balls, FIU History Department, Julius Klinger (1876-1942)