Archive for January, 2014
WONDERS NEVER CEASE: THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PANAMA CANAL AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 28, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in collectors, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives and special collections, Canals, coffin, E. J. (Elmer Joseph) Read (1862-?), engineering, Engineering feats, Gordon Grant (1875-1962), Isthmus of Panama, Joseph Pennell (1857-1927), libraries, Maps, Miraflores lock, Panama Canal, Panama Railroad, Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Trans-Isthmian Canal, travel, watercolors, wonder of the world
CURATORS AND COLLECTORS MEET TO DISCUSS WOLFSONIAN FELIKS TOPOLSKI EXHIBITION PLANS
• January 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, British Army, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communists, displays, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1939-1945, Alexander Nevsky (film : 1938), Archangel, Blitz, Elinor J. Brecher, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Hitler-Stalin Pact, Katyn forest massacre, Leo Brecher, London (England), Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Molotov-Ribbentrop Nonaggression Pact, Moscow, Panama Canal, Picture Post magazine, Poland, Red Army, Red Square, Russia at War / photographs by Margaret Bourke-White (London; New York: Hutchinson & Co. 1942?), Russia in War (London: Metheun & Co 1942), Russian front, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Sound recordings, Soviet Union, Steven Heller, Teresa Topolski, war artists, War photography, World War
ELEPHANTS, DONKEYS, EAGLES, AND UNCLE SAM: NEW DEAL BRANDING FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 18, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, AAA, acquisitions, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, Blue eagle, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Fascism, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, photography, photomontage, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, visual thinking strategies, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: "Brain Trust", "We do our part" (NRA motto), 18th Amendment (Prohibition), A. Birnbaum, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), American Artists' Congress, American eagles, anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Arsenal of Democracy, Bacardi, Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Bureau of Graphic (OWI), cartoons, Charles T. Coiner (1898-1989), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Cock Robin, Democratic donkey, Don Quixote, Editorial cartoons, Einson_Freeman Company, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Federal Art Project (FAP), Federal Works Agency (FWA), Francis Xavier Luca, Ganymede, Giacomo Patri (1898-1978), GOP elephant, Greek mythology, Havana (Cuba), High School students, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), iPrepartory Academy, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, James Cagney (1899-1986), Japanese Empire, Jimmy Durante (1893-1980), Magazine covers, Mother Goose in Washington, National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Retrogression Act (NRA), NRA parade (NYC), Office for Emergency Management (OEM), Office of War Information (OWI), Old King Dole, Paolo Garetto (1903-1989), Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), Progressive Era, Punch (magazine), Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota FL), Roosevelt Album, Roosevelt Omnibus, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), satires, Sheet music covers, Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), Socialist Labor Party, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Ticker tape parades, U.S. Supreme Court, Uncle Sam, Vaughan Shoemaker (1902-1991), White Collar, Will H. Chandler, William Gropper (1897-1977)
PRIVATE DICKS, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, AND FEMME FATALES: PULP COVER ART AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, donations, erotic art, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, adultery, Avon pocket-sized books, Avon Publishing Company, “true crime” stories, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Best Western (magazine), Black Bat, Black Book Detective (magazine), Black Legion, Boardwalk Empire, Bride From Broadway (book), Broadway Virgin (book), BUtterfield 8 (book), caricatures, Censorship, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, damsels in distress, Dead As A Dinosaur (book), detectives, Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), fallen women, Famous Fantastic Mysteries (magazine), femme fatales, Film noir, Flynn's Detective Fiction (magazine), Francis Xavier Luca, G-Men Detective, gangsters, Georgie May (book), glossies, Greatest Detective Cases (magazine), heroes, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Ideal Love (magazine), James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), Leading Detective (magazine), Liberty (magazine), magazine cover art, magazine illustrators, Master Detective (magazine), Motion Picture Production Codes (Hays Codes), Movie trailers, murder, murder mysteries, Nazis, New Masses (magazine), Periodicals, Physical Culture (magazine), Physical Culture Movement, Popular Detective (magazine), pornography, prostitution, publishers, publishing moguls, pulp fiction, Pulp Fiction (film: 1994), pulp magazines, Pulps, Quentin Tarantino (film director), Robert J. Young (1928-2009), romance, See What I Mean? (book), serials, sex, slicks, spicy stories, Sunshine and Health (magazine), The Hucksters (book), Thrilling Detective (magazine), Trinity in Violence (book), Tropical Passions (book), True Confessions (magazine), True Detective (HBO series), True Detective (magazine), vice, Vicki Gold Levi, villains, Walter Popp, Wesley Snyder, Westerns
BLINDLY FOLLOWING DER FÜHRER: A BIZARRE WOLFSONIAN ARTIFACT TO COMMEMORATE WORLD BRAILLE DAY
• January 4, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, donations, gifts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Adolf Hitler caricatures, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Berchtesgaden, blindness, Braille books, George Clooney, Handicapped, Library of Congress, Louis Braille (1809-1852), Martijn F. Le Coutre, Mein Kampf (1933), Monuments Men, mustard gas, National Socialism, Nazis, The Third Reich Collection (Library of Congress), World Braille Day
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