Archive for October, 2012
RETURN IN TIME TO THE LINCOLN HOTEL, MIAMI BEACH, LATE JANUARY, 1921
• October 24, 2012 • 4 CommentsPosted in architecture, photography, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1921, boosterism, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Collins Bridge, electric streetcars, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach), golf courses, horseback riding, J. E. Lummus, J. N. Lummus, January 1921, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), Jungle Island speakeasy and gambling establishment, Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln Road (Miami Beach), Lummus brothers, luxury hotels, Miami Beach (Florida), Miami Beach Casino, Miami Beach developers, Miami Beach Improvement Company, photograph albums, polo grounds, President-elect Warren G. Harding, Senator A. B. Cummins, socialites, Thomas J. Pancoast, tourism, winter resorts
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN BY JEFFREY FLEMINGS, DISPLAY CARD DONOR
• October 17, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, library donors, persuasive arts, pharmaceuticals, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, William H. Helfand, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Colman's Semolini, commercial advertising, commercial art, Commerical products, Consumer products, Display cards, Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, Fixateur Rosefix, Jeffrey Flemings, library exhibitions, Maestro cigars, Magnesie Bismuree, OpTraex, OpTraex Famel, Rita gingerbread, Tropicana, Vetenol insecticide, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit)
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
SOS: SS UNITED STATES CONSERVANCY GROUP VISITS THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 10, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, gifts, Hamburg-American Line, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum conservation, museums, New Deal era, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, Rio de Janeiro, Ruth Kruger, S.S. Resolute, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, world cruises
Tags: Ada Peacock, Advertisements, American Caribbean Line, American Export Lines, American President Lines, Argentina, Brazil, Cathy Leff, Dan McSweeney, deck plans, ephemera, Gaucho, Good Neighbor Fleet, Hamburg-American Line, Joyce Landry, Laurence Miller, luxury liners, matchcovers, menus, Moore-McCormack Lines, museum directors, ocean liners, photographs, promotional brochures, Ruth Keyser Kruger, SS America, SS United States (Steamships), SS United States Conservancy, Susan Gibbs, Thomas C. Ragan, tourist trade, U.S. flag shipping, United States Line, Uruguay
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY MEMBERS OF THE MIAMI BEACH WOMEN’S CLUB
• October 4, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, archives, displays, donations, gifts, memorabilia, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Deco (architecture), Art Deco architects, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Bass Museum building, Betty Wilcox, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Collins Bridge, Dawn Hugh, donors, Elizabeth Goodnow (Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper), Frances Griffith, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Haddon Hall, Historic buildings (Miami Beach), historic builings, HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center, Hurricanes, John Stiles Collins (1837-1928), June Wood, Katherine Pancoast, L. Murray Dixon, Maria Valiente, MBWC presidents, Miami Beach, Miami Beach developers, Miami Beach Public Library, Miami Beach Women's Club, Miami Beach Women's Club Archive, Mrs. Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, Nancy Smith, real estate promoters, Ruby Dixon, Schultze and Weaver, The Marlin Hotel, The Raleigh Hotel, The Ritz Plaza Hotel, The Senator Hotel, The Tides Hotel, The Tiffany Hotel, The Victor Hotel, Thomas J. Pancoast, Violet Storer
WAR AND WAR: PHOTOGRAPHS OF WAZIRISTAN’S PAST FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 1, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, ethnohistory, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, photography, propaganda, racism, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: B. R. Tundan (Photographer), Bannu Railway Station, British Army (1st Battalion Northamptonshire 48th Regiment), British colonies, British-occupied Afghanistan, British-occupied India, Dambil, Faqir of Ipi, Gurkhas, Himalayas, Indus River Bridge, Khiasora Valley, Khyber Pass, Mahsuds, Muslim-Hindu tensions, Nepal, Pakistan, Pashtuns, photograph albums, pith helmets, Razmak, Taliban, Waziristan Revolt (1936), Wazirs
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