Archive for May, 2012
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A HODGE-PODGE OF MATERIALS PULLED FOR A VARIETY OF WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY VISITORS
• May 26, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley, book art, Christopher DeNoon, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Cuba, Cuba Style, David Almeida, decorative arts, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FTP, Futurism, Genoa, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Holocaust, international expositions, Italian design, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mellon curriculum development grant, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Shenandoah Middle School, Spanish-American War, Steve Heller, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Virtual library displays, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968), Alexander Gordon, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bacardi archivist Patricia Suau, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), calendars, Caribbean tourism, comparative colonialism, Conrado W. Massaguer, Dopolavoro, Fascist Italy, Festa dell'Uva di Rovereto, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Good Neighbor Fleet, Graphic Design & Advertising Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Hendrick Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), International exhibitions, Italian Futurism, Ken Botnick, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), Margaret Dikovitskaya, Mellon grant recipiants, Miami Ad School, Moore-McCormack Lines, New Deal America, Nicolas, Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Professor Peter Andrew, Rex Chung, Rosanne Gibel, Stephen Austin University (Texas), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Thomas C. Ragan, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Varadero Beach (Cuba), When Hearts Are Trumps / by Tom Hall, wine, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), Winifred Elysse Newman, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
FAR EAST MOVEMENT: PHOTOGRAPHS OF RUSSIA, ASIA AND INDIA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY.
• May 15, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, Far East, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Asia, China, comparative colonialism, Frederic A. Sharf, India, Margaret Dikovitskaya, Pakistan, research opportunities, scholarship
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO YOU! THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COMMEMORATES THE HINDENBURG DISASTER
• May 8, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in memorabilia, passenger ships, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, skyscrapers, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Airship accidents, Airship hangars, airships, conspiracy theories, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), Disasters, ephemera, Graf Zeppelin (airship), Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg (movie : 1975), Hindenburg disaster, Lakehurst Naval Air Station (Lakehurst NJ), LZ 126, LZ 129, News reels, sabotage, stereographs, transatlantic flights, zeppelins
OBSCURA DAY TOUR OF SOME OF THE MORE OBSCURE OBJECTS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• May 2, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, bindings, collectors, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, gender, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, museums, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women
Tags: "behind the Scenes" tours, artifacts, Batik, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), C. A. Lion Cachet (1864-1945), Camera Obscura, chamber pots, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, flip flopping, games, hidden image works, John Cary, keepsakes, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, marriage, mechanical works, models, negative campaigns, novelties, Obscura Day, Philips' Planisphere, postcards, presidential elections, sex customs, Silvia Ripstein, stereographs, toilets, Vellum bindings, Victorian courting rituals, Victorian humor, watermarks
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