Archive for November, 2012
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXPERIMENT IN METADATA, DIGITIZATION, AND A POETRY SCAVENGER HUNT
• November 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in decorative arts, interns, museums, photography, propaganda arts, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: artifacts, Associate librarian, butterflies, cataloging, catalogs, Chief librarian, David Almeida, digital images, Digital library specialist, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Francis Luca, illustrated poetry, images, library tours, metadata, Mother Earth, mothers and sons, moths, museum collections, objects, opacs, pine needles, poetry, rare books cataloguer, Rochelle Pienn, scavenger hunts, snow
BARON MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU, THE NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM, AND THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 15, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, cars, collectors, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, Ford Motor Company, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, school visits to The Wolfsonian, streamlined cars, Styled for the Road, Styled for the Road (Exhibition), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore W. Pietsch, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertising American Automobiles Abroad (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), antique cars, automobiles, automotive ephemera, Beaulieu (Hampshire County England), David Almeida, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu (3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu), Futuristic vehicles, Mantagu Motor Museum, motor cars, Museum founders, National Motor Museum, Packard automobiles, Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design (1908-1948), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), vintage cars
BLOOD BULLION: A BOER WAR ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY.
• November 7, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1899-1902, anti-Semitism, Boers, colonialism, concentration camp, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Photograph albums, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII, Zulus
Tags: Afrikaans, British Empire, FIU faculty, Frederic A. Sharf, gold rush, Guerrilla warfare, Italian fascism, Nazi visual culture, Nicholas Blaga, Orange Free State, photograph albums, Professor Elizabeth Heath, Rochelle Pienn, Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), South African Republic, South African War (1899-1902), Steve Heller, World War I, World War II
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
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