Archive for May, 2013
THE LAST SHOW: A COMMERCIAL CATALOG FOR FUNERAL “PROPS” IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• May 25, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in cataloging, decorative arts, interns, museums, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Nouveau, Austere Church Pew, Beaux-Arts, bronze, Caskets, commercial catalogs, Death, funeral customs, funerals, furniture-makers, hardwood, Harold and Maude (film : 1971), Kelly, library interns, National Casket Company, sales catalogs, seamstresses, silk, sofas, Streamline Moderne, trade catalogs
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHOUT OUT TO THE TVA! To Vend at Auction?
• May 22, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Living Newspaper, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, theatre, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Dams, Democrats, Electricity (bas relief), Elia Kazan (film director), ephemera, FDR, federal budgets, Federal Theatre Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, George William Norris (1861-1944), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), hydro-electric dams, Library of Congress, Living Newspaper, Mitchel Wolfson Jr., National Progressive Republican League, National Public Radio, NPR, postcards, posters, Power (Federal Theatre production), President Barack Obama, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential candidates, private power utility companies, Progressive liberal Republicans, Progressive Party, public power utilities, REA, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Republicans, Rural Electrification Act, Supreme Court, Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), TVA, Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), Wild River (1960)
HOORAY FOR NORWAY! SOME WOLFSONIAN-FIU ITEMS TO CELEBRATE NASJONALDAGEN—NORWEGIANS’ “NATIONAL DAY”
• May 17, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, international expositions, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle WA), Aurora Borealis, B. & N. Line, Berg, Bergenske & Nordenfjeldske Steamship Company, Carl Hildebrand, cod liver oil, Constitution of Norway (1814), cruise line industry, Daughters of the Northern Lights (textile), Exposition universelle de 1900 (Paris), Gerhard Peter Frantz Wilhelm Munthe (1849-1929), German-occupied Norway, International exhibitions, Joseph Auslander (1897-1965), M.S. Bergensfjord, Modern furniture design, Nasjonaldagen, National Day (Norway), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum Tapestry Studio, Norsemen, Northern lights, Norway, Norwegian America Line, Norwegian artists, Norwegian flag, Norwegian-Americans, Norwegians, ocean liners, romantic nationalism, Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994), Vikings, Wolfsonian Public Programs Manager, World’s Fairs
CHILD SOLDIERS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU COLLECTION
• May 9, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Fascism, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Abd-El-Krim, Abd-El-Krim (1882/3-1963), Aurelio Bertiglia, Battle of Annual (Morocco), Berbers, Chemical weapons, Child's Play, Children in war imagery, civilian casualties, crimes against humanity, Dámaso Berenguer, Delegación Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda de F.E.R. y de las J.O.N.S, East Africans, Ethiopia, Fabrica Nacional de Productos Quimicos plant (La Marañosa), Fascism, Flecha (periodical), Geneva convention, Geneva Protocol, guerrilla leaders, Hugo Stolzenberg, Italo-Ethiopian war, Italy, League of Nations, martyrs, Morocco, mustard gas, North Africans, Padre Reginaldo Guiliani (1887-1936), postcards, propaganda, rare periodicals, Rif rebellion, Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1937), Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Steve Heller, Syria, Treaty of Versailles
MAY DAY: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS PROMPTED BY THE GARMENT WORKER TRAGEDY IN BANGLADESH AND RIOTS IN SEATTLE
• May 2, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communism, Communists, fashion, FDR, Great Depression, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Adolph Fischer (1858–1887), Albert Richard Parsons (1848-1887), Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American Federation of Labor, Anarchism, Anarchists, August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), Bangladesh, Bangladesh building collapse, Bombs, Central Labor Union of Chicago, Chicago, Dangerous working conditions, demonstrations, Eight Hour Association, Garment industry, George Engel (1836-1887), Haymarket Square (Chicago), Industrial disasters, Knights of Labor, labor leaders, labor movement, Labor unions, Mass meetings, May Day, McCormick Reaper Works (Chicago), National Labor Relations Act of 1935, Police, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Radicals, Riots, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialist Labor Party, Sting, strikes, Sweat shops, Sweatshops, Textile Workers Union of America, The Police (musical group), Third World, Vandalism, violence, Wagner Act
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