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WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II

• August 31, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Aurora Morcillo, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, Jeffrey G. Fischer, Marta Zarzycka, Michael Smith, Pedro A. Figueredo, Second World War

WOMEN AND WAR AT THE WOLFSONIAN

• August 27, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Communism, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II
Tags: Aurora Morcillo, Dolores Ibarruri, family values, Francisco Franco, gender issues, leaflets, Marta Zarzycka, Pasionaria, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), visual rhetoric

LET’S GET GRAPHIC!

• August 25, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in 1930s, New Deal, Soviet propaganda, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: colonialism, European imperialism, graphic statistics, New Deal America, Soviet Union, Statistically Speaking, statistics

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK!

• August 24, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in acquisitions, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 125th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915), American bison, Arts and Crafts movement, Boo Boo Bear, Buffalo, East Aurora, Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), Harold E. Keeler (1905-1968), Howard Gottlieb, National Park Service, National Parks, New York, Old Faithful, Photochroms (color lithographic prints), the Roycrofters, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), wood block prints, wood engravers, Yellowstone National Park, Yogi Bear

RIO DE JANEIRO COMES TO MIAMI BEACH IN AUGUST

• August 20, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition, Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932), Brazil, Brazilian culture, Brazilian Film Festival, Brazilians in South Florida, Capoeira Abolicao, Centenary of Brazilian Independence (Rio de Janeiro 1922), Chicago 1933-1934, Fascists, flight, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Miami Beach, President Herbert Hoover, Rio de janeiro, seaplanes, Tarsila da Amaral (1886-1973), transatlantic flights

LAUNDERED WORDS: MUSLIN CHILDREN’S BOOKS GIFTED TO THE WOLFSONIAN

• August 17, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in children's books, Children's propaganda books, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Spanish-American War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Mark Twain, Rochelle Pienn

ARTISTS’ SPOTLIGHT: THE WORK OF BOOK AND GRAPHIC DESIGNER, BILL BRADLEY

• August 13, 2011 • 3 Comments

Posted in FIU School of Architecture, graphic arts, graphic designers, Mellon curriculum development grant, posters
Tags: Abru Ozer, American Art Nouveau, David Rifkind, June Knopf, magazine cover designs, Tori Arpad-Cotta, William H. Bradley (1868-1962)

UNPACKING PANAMA

• August 11, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915)

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING!

• August 3, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: ASA (American Statistical Association), capitalism, charts, colonial Railroad projects, conventions, diagrams, Euclid, FDR, Five Year Plan, graphic statistics, JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings), Mark Twain, Miami Beach (Florida), New Deal, Portuguese colonies, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), propaganda, Soviet Union, statistics, tables