Archive for June, 2013
APROPOS OF THE WET SNOW: SIBERIA IN SMALL SNAPSHOTS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 28, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Russia, Soviet Union, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Allied intervention (1918-1920), Allies (W.W.I.), Bolsheviks, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Harbin (China), Icebreakers (Ships), Japan, Japanese Imperial Navy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leo Tolstoy, Nisshin (Cruiser), photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russian Civil War (1917-1922), Siberia (Russia), Skating, Vladivostok (Russia), White Army, Wolfsonian-FIU library
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, THIS FRIDAY AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, collectors, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, reception, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition, Advertising cards, Advertisments, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Managment (FIU), commercial art, Display cards, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, food, Food habits, food production, Graphic design, Kate Greenaway, Mary Pennell, menus, Modern Meals (Wolfsonian exhibit), Packaging, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), recipe books, Recipes, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Victorian art, Victory Gold Levi Collection, World's Fairs
A VERY WOLFSONIAN MEDITERRANEAN VACATION
• June 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in architects, architecture, Artists, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Earthquakes, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, Green Library, Italy, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, monumental architecture, museum architecture, museum conservation, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, postcards, posters, preservation, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Vienna Secession, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Acropolis Museum (Athens), Angiolo Mazzoni (1894-1979), Antonio Giuseppe Santagata (1888-1985), Assisi (Italy), Bell-towers, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Beth Dunlop, Bon Voyage (Wolfsonian library exhibit), cafes, Calabria, Catania (Sicily), Cathedrals, Chania (Crete), Churches, Civitavecchia, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Classical ruins, classical statues, Dale Chihuly (1941- ), deck plans, discotheques, Dr. Laurence Miller, Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960), Eastern Mediterranean, Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Ephesus, Francis Xavier Luca, frescoes, Greek ruins, Greek Theatres, Ideal Gladstone, Kuşadası (Turkey), La Casa Madre dell'Associazione Naz. Mulitati e Invalidi in Rome, Latina, Leonard A. Lauder, Littoria, Madonnina, Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960), Maya-inspired architecture, menus, Messina (Sicily), Messina Earthquake of 1908, Morris Lapidus (1902-2001), mosques, Mount Etna, Mt. Etna, Museo Duilio Cambellotti, Navigator of the Seas, Ostia Antica, Parthenon, Piraeus (Greece), Pontine marshes, Port of Piraeus, postcards, posters, Rex (steamship), Roman ruins, Rome, Royal Caribbean, San Diego Historical Society, spaghetti, Spires, stained glass, Syracusa, Taormina (Sicily), Thomas C. Ragan, tourism, tourist trade, tourist trinkets, Vatican, Vatican Museums, Venice, Vienna Secession, Vienna Workshop, Virgin Mary, volcanoes, White Star Line
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