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SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR: VISIONS OF VICTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN

• March 30, 2012 • 2 Comments

Posted in bindings, colonialism, Cuba, exhibitions, Great Britain, Rochelle T. Pienn, Spanish-American War, war propaganda, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions
Tags: Newspapers, Rochelle Pienn, Spain, Spanish- American War of 1898, United States Navy

MEMORIAL PLAQUE BY MICHELE OKA DONER HONORS FOUNDING WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIAN, JAMES FINDLAY

• March 25, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in children's books, displays, Michelle Oka Doner, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian, WPA
Tags: Art in public places, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, bronze, Broward Public Library, Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905-1995), exhibition catalogs, James Findlay (1943-2010), librarians, lost wax bronzes, memorials, Miami Airport terrazzo, Miami Beach artists, Michele Oka Doner, plaques, pop-up books, Vojtech Kubasta (1914-1992), Wolfsonian Foundation, WPA

HOLIDAY IN HAVANA: VISITORS MAKE A STOPOVER AT THE WOLFSONIAN ENROUTE TO CUBA

• March 17, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in Cuba, Cuba Style, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, political art, postcards, posters, prohibition, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Advertisements, American intervention in Cuba, Bohemia (periodical), Che Guevara, commercial advertising, Cuban bandleaders, Cuban Independence Movement, Cuban revolutionaries, Desi Arnaz (1917-1986), Fidel Castro, Frederic A. Sharf, Guerra de los Diez Anos, Holiday in Havana (1949), Jose Marti, Rochelle Pienn, Spanish- American War of 1898, sugar industry, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, U.S.S. Maine, William Randolph Hearst

1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS, AT THE WOLFSONIAN, 1001 WASHINGTON AVENUE

• March 15, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in colonial propaganda, colonialism, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Orientalism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Arabian Nights tales, FIU Theatre, Harriette Amsden, Herbert & Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, theatrical productions, Thousand and one nights

NAZIS, AND GREMLINS, AND SPANDULES, OH MY! WWII CARTOON CHARACTERS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY

• March 14, 2012 • 3 Comments

Posted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, Disney, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, Allies, animated film shorts, Army Air Foce (US), Axis, Blondie, caricatures, Cartoon characters, cartoons, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Charlie Chaplin, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Comic strip characters, Dagwood, Donald Duck, Francis Xavier Luca, Gremlins, Gremlins from the Kremlin, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, macaronic speech, Merrie Melodies, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Pamela K. Harer, Royal Air Force (RAF), Russian Rhapsody, Spandules, The Great Dictator (1940), Walt Disney, Warner Brothers

OF MINES AND MEN: RARE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR MATERIALS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY

• March 8, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in colonialism, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Diamond mining, diaries, Gold mining, journals, Rochelle Pienn, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharf Associate Librarian, South African War (1899-1902), war diaries