Archive for November, 2013
EAGLE VERSUS TURKEY: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• November 27, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Artists, book art, children's books, collectors, donations, Federal One, gifts, graphic arts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Addams Family Values (film: 1993), Bald eagle, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Block books, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonists, Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964), Federal Arts Project (FAP), Founding fathers, Francis Xavier Luca, Helen Johnson, Illustrated children's books, Indians, Iowa Craft Project, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Linoleum block illustrations, Maud Fuller Petersham (1890-1971), Miska Petersham (1888-1960), Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, Naomi Averill, national emblems, national symbols, New Deal art, Pilgrims, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, rag books, Saalfield Muslin books, settlers, Thanksgiving, turkeys, Wood cuts, Work Projects Administration (WPA)
COMMEMORATING ASSASSINATED U.S. PRESIDENTS: SOME IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, collectors, donations, gifts, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alexander Berkman, Alexander Doyle (1857-1922), American Bank Note Company of New York, Anarchists, assassinations, Canton (Ohio), Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), Charles Guiteau, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), commemorations, Electrical lighting, Emma Goldman, Ford’s Theater, George C. Domke, George Keller (1842-1935), Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), James Garfield (1831-1881), Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), Leon Czolgosz, Lincoln Village (Chicago world's fair 1933), log cabins, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), President John F. Kennedy, Presidential assassinations, Presidential inaugurations, replicas, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ruth Kruger, Sculptors, Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington D.C., The Wigwam (convention center), Tickets, U.S. presidents, William McKinley (1843-1901), Woodcuts, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago Ill), X-ray machines
POTTY HUMOR FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION IN HONOR OF WORLD TOILET DAY
• November 19, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, donations, gifts, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, persuasive arts, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WWI, WWII
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, American pictorial wit, Axis leaders, Bathrooms, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), Brochures, caricatures, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Flush toilets, Francis Xavier Luca, Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Indoor plumbing, Jeffrey G. Fischer, Latrines, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Michael Smith, Military life, Novelty works, Outhouses, Photomontage, promised gifts, public toilets, Sewers, Toilet paper, toilets, Uncle Sam, United Nations, Urinals, vintage postcards, Water closets, World Toilet Day
L’ ARMISTICE: MORE THAN A DAY OFF FROM WORK
• November 11, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Armistice Day, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, Veterans Day, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1918, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Arc de Triomphe, Armistice Day, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Censorship, Compiegne (France), Court martials, Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), Francis Xavier Luca, French President Francois Hollande, Great Depression, Hall of Mirrors (Versailles), Irving Marantz, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Kirk Douglas (actor: 1916-), Library Assistant Michel Potop, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Military executions, Museums, November 11, Paths of Glory (film : 1957), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, Railway cars, Remembrance Day, Shell-shock, Soldiers, Stanley Kubrick (director : 1928-1999), Surrenders, the Great War (1914-1918), Treaty of Versailles, Trench warfare, Uniforms, Versailles, Veteran's Day, veterans, War casualties, War memorials
THE UBIQUITOUS JEEP: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY PERSPECTIVE
• November 8, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, automobile design, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, donations, gender, gifts, Great Britain, library donors, museums, Pamela K. Harer, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Al Alschuler, American Bantam Car Company, Auto Show (Miami Beach), Bantam Reconnaissance Car, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Colombia, Ford, Francis Xavier Luca, Jeep, Jeep Willco, Jeffrey G. Fischer, Jenny the Jeep (Children’s book), Karl Probst (1883-1963), Miami Beach Convention Center, Michael Smith, Pamela K. Harer, Pereira (Colombia), Pietje Pluimstaart (Children’s book), WAACS, Willys-Overland, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Zona Cafetera
SPIES AND ALLIES: A WOLFSONIAN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
• November 2, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, Disney, donations, Elinor Brecher, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, leftist artists, library donors, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Allies, America First Committee, Arsenal of Democracy, Aviators, Bill Justice, British spies, Children's book authors, David Mackenzie Ogilvy (1911-1999), Fifth Columnists, George Gallup, Gremlins, Hennet Conant's The Irregulars, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Hyde Park (New York), Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Inez Hogan, James Bond, Lend-lease, Leo Brecher, MI6, National Public Radio, National Security Agency (NSA), NPR, RAF, Roald Dahl (1916-1990), Safety Education Division Flight Control Command United States Army Air Force, Sir Noël Peirce Coward (1899-1973, Spandules, Spies, U.S. Army Air Forces, Walt Disney
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