Archive for September, 2013
FROM FDR’S “GOOD NEIGHBOR” POLICY TO HOSPITALITY DESIGN AMERICAS EXPO: REFLECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 25, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, collectors, Communism, cruise ships, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, gifts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rio de Janeiro, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: American Historical Association, American interventionism, Brazil, Brochures, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Cargo ships, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cold War, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, GI Rountable series, Good Neighbor Fleet, Good Neighbor Policy, Hospitality Design Americas, Latin America, Miami Beach Convention Center, Montevideo (Uruguay), Moore-McCormack Lines, Pamphlets, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rio de janeiro (Brazil), S.S. Argentina, S.S. Uruguay, See the Americas First campaign, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Thomas C. Ragan, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: THE 1973 “BATTLE OF THE SEXES,” OR, A VICTORY FOR EQUAL RIGHTS, PERPETUALLY CONTESTED
• September 20, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, documentaries, donations, exhibitions, gender, gifts, library donors, museums, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, physical fitness, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: athletes, “Battle of the Sexes”, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Billie Jean King (1943-), Bobby Riggs (1918-1995), equal rights advocates, feminists, Magazine covers, male chauvinists, Periodicals, Physical Culture (magazine), Physical Culture Movement, Robert J. Young (1928-2009), sporting events, sports, Sports figures, Tennis, Tennis players, women, Women in Motion (Wolfsonian exhibition), Women's rights
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CIVIL WAR: PARALLEL PERPSECTIVES ON CONFLICT AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• September 15, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, Children's propaganda books, displays, Fascism, Great Britain, Holocaust, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Reds", al-Qaeda jihadists, atrocities, Bilbao (Spain), cartoons, Cathedrals, Catholic nuns, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Chemical warfare, Chemical weapons, civilian casualties, Convents, Crucifixion, gas attacks, Gas masks, German occupied territories, Islamic extremists, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Latakia (Syria), leaflets, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Maaloula (Syria), massacres, Miami Ad School, Monasteries, Nuns, P.O.W.s, Photos don't lie, President Bashar al_Assad of Syria, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Prison camps, Prisoners of war, Reims, religious wars, Republic of Salo, Sacred sites, Terror, terrorists, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), U-Boat attacks, War and religion, war prisoners, Wittenberg (Germany)
VISIT TO THE WOLFSONIAN BY AUSTRALIAN LUMINARY, THERESA FAMULARO OF VIVID SYDNEY
• September 11, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in displays, exhibitions, gifts, Great Depression, library donors, memorabilia, museum architecture, museums, photography, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, skyscrapers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Advertisements, advertising, American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company, Architectural lighting, Australia, Electricity, Event lighting, Ever Ready Electric Lights, Exhibition buildings, Fairgrounds, Fountains, Francis Xavier Luca, Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco), Herves Descottes, Illumination, Incandescent bulbs, Knight Foundation, L'Observatoire Internationale, Light, Light bulbs, Lighting, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Missouri), Night views, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, Reflective pools, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Theresa Famularo, Tower of Jewels, Vivid Sydney
THE PERSUASIVE POWER OF PROPAGANDA: MIAMI AD SCHOOL STUDENTS AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• September 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, donations, Fascism, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, advertising, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), commercial art, Donald Duck, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), leaflets, manipulation, Martijn F. Le Coutre, Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Malinowska, Nazis, persuasion, postcards, posters, print media, propaganda, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war propaganda
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