Archive for February, 2013
WOLFSONIAN FELLOW JILL BUGAJSKI DELIVERS HER PARTING PRESENTATION AS FORMER FELLOW ELIZABETH HEATH PREPARES AN EXHIBIT AT THE FROST MUSEUM
• February 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, accessioning, acquisitions, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Elinor Brecher, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, Popular Front, portfolios, posters, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1852-1935), America First Committee, American Fascists, American Nazis, British Colonialism, Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975), caricatures, Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dr. O. J. Currie, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Fifth Columnists, FIU Professor Elizabeth Heath, Gerald Nye (1892-1971), Grey;s Hospital (Maritsburg), H. Smith Richardson, Hospitals, Hugo Gellert, Jill Bugajski, John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), Lord Dundonald (Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane: 12th Earl of Dundonald, Major-General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908), manuscripts, Martin Dies (1900-1972), Nazi sympathizers, Norman Thomas (1884-1968), Nurse Kate Driver, Nurses, Nursing, Philip Fox La Follette (1897-1965), photograph albums, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. Douglas Stuart (1916-), Rochelle Pienn, Second Boer War (1899-1900), Siege of Ladysmith, Silver Legion of America, Silver Shirts, typescripts, Typhoid fever, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Wolfsonian fellows
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, U. S. POSTAL SERVICE, FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• February 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, donations, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American artists, Benjamin Franklin, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Cachets, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Envelopes, First Day covers, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, George Washington on stamps, Great Depression, Home front, Miss Liberty, muralists, National Recovery Administration (NRA), New Deal America, Philately, Phoenix (Mythical bird), Post Office, postcards, Postmarks, Postmaster General, President George Washington, President's Day, Stage coaches in art, stamp-collecting, stamps, Statue of Liberty National Monument, U.S. Postal Service, V-J Day (1945), Victory Gold Levi Collection, Victory sign, Woodcuts
A RECEPTION IN THE WOLFSONIAN CAFÉ AND THEN “BACK TO WORK” IN THE LIBRARY
• February 16, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American left artists, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, curator, David Almeida, displays, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, political art, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, reception, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: art handlers, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), Cathy Leff, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Describing Labor (exhibition), Esther Shalev-Gerz, exhibition installations, FIU Professor Emma Sordo, FIU Professor Victor Uribe, Great Depression, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, James Taylor, labor movement, Longshoremen’s Strike (1936-1937), Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Boat Show, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, Rosita Maria Sosa, Sharon Misdea, Silvia Barisione, Steve Forero-Paz, strikes, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture
THEN AND NOW: SOUTH FLORIDA’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH YACHTS AND BOATING CULLED FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• February 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, architects, architecture, graphic arts, graphic designers, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, swimwear, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: 1920s, Alton Beach, Altonia, Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas, boats and boating, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), commercial advertising, commercial art, Convention Center (Miami Beach), Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach), Florida Inland Navigation District, Florida Intracoastal Waterway, Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Central Railroad, Lake Pancoast (yacht), luxury cruisers, Miami Beach (Florida), Miami International Boat Show, Palm trees, Paul Proehl (1887-1965), photograph albums, Power boats, Powerboat races, Price and McLanahan (architectural firm), Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Roney Plaza Yacht Basin, Shadow K (yacht), Sightseeing tours, South Florida, Swimsuits, yachts and yachting
THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIANS RAISE THEIR VOICES
• February 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Boers, British Army, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, David Almeida, Dennis Wiedman, Digital Library Specialist, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Acisclo Fernandez, Alfred Dreyfus, Ana Ochoa, Andrea Doria, Augustus John Lavie, Austrian Secession, Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), British colonies, Children's propaganda books, China, Christopher DiCarlo, Cold War, Cristina Pereda, David Almeida, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dreyfus Affair, Edouard Benedictus, Emile Zola, FIU History Professor Elizabeth Heath, FIU Professor Dennis Wiedman, FIU Professor Raul Reis, FIU Professor Yvette Piggush, French anti-Semitism, German-occupied France, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Japanese internment, Jill Bugajski, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Michel Potop, Mongolia, Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis), pochoir prints, Rochelle Pienn, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sand in their Boots (event), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharon Gooden, South African War (1899-1902), Tibet, Valentine's Day, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, Wolfsonian fellows, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellow Peril
FIU LITERATURE AND ART HISTORY STUDENTS, EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS, WOLFSONIAN & SHSA BOARD MEMBERS, AND A FAREWELL TO A WOLFSONIAN FELLOW ALL IN TWO DAYS!
• February 2, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in Artists, Children's propaganda books, French consulate, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, oceanliners, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: Advertisements, Art Deco bindings, Art Nouveau, Arte rustica italiana, Board members, book bindings, calendars, caricatures, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Christopher DeNoon, Consul generals, Coronation souvenirs, Crowns, Dams, Deputy consul generals, Deutsche Gedenkhalle, Dolar Cotton, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, ephemera, Eric Gill (1882-1940), Exposicion universal de Barcelona, F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), Fascist Italy, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), France, Futurism, Germany, Ghostland, Great Depression, heraldry, international expositions, Iron and steel, Italian futurists, Italy, Joseph Hémard (1880-1961), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Leslie Sternlieb, lottery, Men at work, Nazi Germany, Netherlands, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, Pochoir plates, portraits, postcards, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Heller-Greenman, Public work projects, Puzzles, Queen Elizabeth II, Rural electrification, Sheet music covers, Soviet Union, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Steamsip Historical Society of America (SHSA), stencil works, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), Une ambassade francaise, Union Square, United Kingdom, vintage postcards, Works Progress Administration, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WPA, Zang Tuum Tuum
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