Archive for August, 2012
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, ANDREW! A WOLFSONIAN COMMEMORATION OF FLORIDA HURRICANES
• August 25, 2012 • 4 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, CCC, donations, gifts, library donors, New Deal era, The Bonus March, veterans, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Anniversaries, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Edy Legrand (1893-?), Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961), Fort Caroline (Florida), Great Miami Hurricane (1926), Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (1536?–1575?), Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina, hurricane season, Hurricane Wilma, Hurricanes, Jean Ribault (1520-1565), Labor Day Hurricane (1935), Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1475?-1526), Pánfilo de Narváez (1478–1528), Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519-1574), pochoirs, shipwreck survivors, shipwrecks, South Florida, St. Augustine (Florida), stencil works, WPA
A TALE OF TWO INTERNS
• August 22, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, interns, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, 2012 Presidential election, Alexander Gordon, Alfred Mossman Landon (1887-1987), campaign literature, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Communist dictators, Democratic donkey, Democrats, Edward Stratemeyer, electioneering, fascist dictators, Fear-mongering, Francis Xavier Luca, GOP elephant, Great Depression, Great Recession, guilt by association, Illustrated book bindings, internet, internships, Joselyn Naranjo, Mitt Romney, negative campaigns, North Iowa Tea Party billboards, Photoshop, political icons, political parties, President Barack Obama, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), presidential candidates, red-baiting, Republicans, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), smear campaigns, Socialism, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture
AFTER A BRIEF TRIP TO MUNICH, IT’S OFF TO THE OPENING OF CENTURY OF THE CHILD AT MOMA IN NYC
• August 11, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), bindings, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, curator, displays, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Peter Behrens (1868-1940), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, Antonio Rubino (1880-1964), Art collectors, Art Nouveau, Balilla Youth Movement, Beate Dry, Book collectors, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Child's Play, Children and war, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, collectors, curators, ephemera, Francis Luca, games, Glimpses of the East, Graham Dry, Indoctrinating Youth, Italian fascism, Jr. Study Centre, Jugendstil book bindings, Juliet Kinchin, library exhibits, Merv Bloch, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Munich (Germany), museum storage, New-York Historical Society, Pamela K. Harer, Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), Peter Behrens (1868-1940), Private collections, The Mitchell Wolfson, toys, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsoniana (Genoa Italy), World War II toys
GLIMPSES OF THE EAST: LARGE GIFT OF RARE WORKS ABOUT THE FAR EAST ARRIVE AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 3, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, bindings, cruise ships, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: China, Christopher Columbus, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, diaries, East Indies, Edward Greey, Japan, Japanese fairy tales, Korea, medical missionaries, Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), photograph albums, travel literature, Treaty of Kanagawa
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