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FIENDISH FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS BY LYND WARD

• October 29, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Frankenstein, Halloween, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Madman’s Drum, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), monsters, Song Without Words, wood engravers, wood engraving

NEW “NEW DEAL” ITEMS DONATED TO THE LIBRARY

• October 27, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, New Deal era, Wolfsonian library
Tags: James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, Tennessee Valley Authority, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture

HAPPY BELATED LABOR DAY!

• October 25, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, donations, gifts, Great Depression, New Deal (1933-1939), Wolfsonian library
Tags: Harry Bridges, Labor Day, labor leaders, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, unions

A WORD FROM OUR RARE BOOKS CATALOGUER, DR. NICOLAE HARSANYI

• October 21, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in political art, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library
Tags: caricatures, Jozef Klemens Pilsudski (1867-1935), Nicolae Harsanyi, Poland, Polish Chiefs of State, Polish history, rare books cataloguer, satires, Zdzislaw Czermanski (1896-1970)

NO ROOM(S) FOR FALSE MODESTY

• October 16, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in architects, architecture
Tags: Esposizione regionale etnografica (Rome 1911), Michelangelo Sabatino, Pride in Modesty, Vernacular architecture

WHAT’S BEHIND THE WOLFSONIAN’S MEDITERRANEAN REVIVAL FAÇADE? MORE BEAUTIFUL FAÇADES!

• October 15, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in architects, architecture, FIU School of Architecture, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Mellon curriculum development grant, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library
Tags: facades, Professor Gray Read, Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886-1945), shop fronts, Wolfsonian Museum

EVIL INCARNATE: GOULISH GIANTS, GRASPING HANDS, AND GRIM REAPERS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY

• October 13, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, Communism, Florida International University students, propaganda, propaganda posters, Soviet propaganda, Spanish Civil War, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library collection, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: evil, Kenneth Johnson

JAMES FINDLAY (1943-2010), IN MEMORIAM

• October 11, 2010 • 4 Comments

Posted in New Deal era, Wolfsonian library, WPA
Tags: Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, obituary

LETTERS, DIARIES, VIEW BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, AND OTHER PRIMARY SOURCES ON THE ANGLO-BOER WAR

• October 7, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, photography, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda
Tags: primary source materials, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), South African War (1899-1902)

¡VIVA MÉXICO!

• October 1, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Anna Indych-Lopez, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Lynda Klich, Mexican art, Mexico, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), muralists, murals, Rockefeller Centre