Archive for June, 2012
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY GIFTED BY MITCHELL WOLFSON, JR.
• June 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American architects, American left artists, architects, architecture, book art, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, cruise ships, decorative arts, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, France, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, international expositions, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Peter Behrens (1868-1940), political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Uncategorized, Unrealized architecture, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), bears, catalogs, colonialism, Detroit International Bridge, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, furniture design, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Gallic roosters, George G. Sharp (naval architect), German artists, Hercules, Heywood-Wakefield Company, imperial eagles, International exhibitions, Kriegszeit, Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, Mississippi River Power Company, nationalism, New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915), Park Avenue Armory, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), poets, Republic of Turkey, sea lions, The Communist Manifesto in pictures, Trade shows, Vichy France, Wolfsonian Museum, wolves, World's Fairs
WOLFSONIAN PROFILE: LIBRARY INTERNS ALEXANDER GORDON AND JOSELYN NARANJO
• June 16, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, displays, donations, exhibitions, Far East, Federal Writers' Project, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FWP, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, interns, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russo-Japanese War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Alexander Gordon, American Guide Series, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, David Almeida, Elections, Francis Xavier Luca, Gardner Museum (Boston), Joselyn Naranjo, Lexington Green, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), political campaigns, Port Arthur, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Rochelle Pienn, See America campaign
GOOD NEIGHBOR FLEET EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• June 2, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Argentina, Brazil, collectors, cruise ships, Digital Library Specialist, Disney, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, passenger ships, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Ada Peacock, Animators, Aquarela do Brazil (cartoon), Argentine State Line, art handlers, ashtrays, Brazil, cartoons, CIAA, cruises, David Almeida, deck plans, Donald Duck, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Good Neighbor Fleet, Good Neighbor Policy, Goofy, illustrators, inaugural speeches, James Taylor, Jose Carioca, Laurence Miller, matchcovers, menus, Michel Potop, Moore-McCormack Lines, Musical cartoons, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, postcards, S.S. Argentina, S.S. Brazil, S.S. Uruguay, Saludos Amigos (cartoon 1943), South America, Steve Forero-Paz, Thomas C. Ragan, Uruguay, Walt Disney
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