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AFTER HOURS: VIP VISIT TO THE LIBRARY

• July 29, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Cuba, library donors, political art, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Cuban dictators, David and Caroline Cardenas, El Encanto (department store), Fidel Castro, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Havana Hilton, Hotel Varadero, Ideal Gladstone, John Russell Pope, Jr., Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson, political parties, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Republicans, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade

TYPOGRAPHY IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION

• July 28, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in typography, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Broadsides, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (1881-1955), Ltd., Miami International University of Art and Design, Monotype Corporation, printing, Professor Michael Lawrence, specimen books, Type face

VERNA CURTIS’ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES: A TALK ON HER NEW BOOK ABOUT PHOTO ALBUMS

• July 9, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in colonial propaganda, colonialism, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, passenger ships, Philippine American War, promotional materials, propaganda, Ruth Kruger, S.S. Resolute, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: curators, Empire Exhibition (1938), Estelle Zalkin family, Flamingo Hotel, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nautilus Hotel, New York World's Fair, photograph albums, Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, Photography, Prints & Photographs Division (Library of Congress), Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Verna Curtis