Archive for April, 2014
REMEMBER THE ALAMO, RIVERWALK, AND THE HEMISFAIR, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: THEN AND NOW
• April 30, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, American architects, architects, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, Great Depression, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NYA, preservation, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs, WPA
Tags: Along the San Antonio River (booklet), American Guide Series, “Remember the Alamo”, barges, domestic tourism, Edwin P. Arneson (1888-1938), engineers, exhibitions, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), flood prevention, floods, Great Depression, HemisFair ’68, Hemisfair Park, historic preservation, Juarez Plaza (San Antonio), La Villita (San Antonio), Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897-1955), Maury Maverick (1895-1954), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753-1811), National Youth Administration (NYA), New Deal, outdoor theatres, Pan American Day, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. H. H. Hugman (1902-1980), River Beautification Project (San Antonio), San Antonio (Texas), San Antonio River, Southwestern Social Sciences Association Conference, Statues, Texas, Texas Independence movement, the Alamo, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Workers of the Writers’ Program, World’s Fairs
“THE JEWEL CITY” BY THE GOLDEN GATE: THE 1915 PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
• April 24, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Bernard Maybeck, Cawston Ostrich Farm, chocolate, cocoa beans, Exhibition buildings, Ferdinand Magellan, Ghirardelli, Golden Gate, Hercules, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Keystone View Company, Midways, Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, souvenir viewbooks, stereographs, Thomas Hastings, Tower of Jewels, Uncle Sam, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, vintage postcards, William Howard Taft, World's Fairs
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (AND THREE MUSEUMS): THE RED STAR LINE AND EUGEEN VAN MIEGHEM MUSEUMS (ANTWERP), AND THE WOLFSONIAN (MIAMI BEACH)
• April 12, 2014 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, cruise ships, curator, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, gifts, Great Depression, Holocaust, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, ocean liners, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arnold Bernstein, Around the world cruises, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Erwin Joos, Eugeen Van Mieghan (1875-1930), Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum, Frederic A. Sharf, Holland Amerika Lijn, International Navigation Company (Philadelphia), Irving Berlin, Laurence Miller, Nazis, Orientalism in art, Philip Heylen, photograph albums, pogroms, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.S. Arabic, S.S. Neiuw Amsterdam, Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine (Antwerp), Vaderland (Steamship), Vice Mayor Philip Heylen of the City of Antwerp
RUSSIA, CRIMEA AND UKRAINE IN THE 1930s: RECENT WOLFSONIAN ACQUISITIONS
• April 11, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Communism, donations, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: American tourists in U.S.S.R, Annexations, Anti-Communist Propaganda, Battleship Potemkin (film : 1925), Black Sea ports, Boulevard Steps (Odessa), Charkow (Karkov), Crimea, Crimean War (1854-1855), Dnjepropetrovsk, Kiev (Ukraine), Kremlin, Lea Nickless, Livadia (Yalta), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., NPR, Odessa (Ukraine), Odessa Steps, Palace of State Industry (Ukraine), Petershof (Leningrad), Potemkin Steps, Propaganda posters, Red Square, Russia, Secession movements, Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Soviet museums, Soviet Union, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.S.R., Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Winter Olympic Games (Sochi), Winter Palace (St. Petersburg), Yalta
A TRIP BACK IN TIME TO THE GILDED AGE AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, displays, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World's fairs
Tags: "white city", 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900, 3-D, A Bird in a Gilded Cage (song), Advertising cards, Arthur J. Lamb (1870-1928), B. T. Babbitt Soap Powder, California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco), Centennial International Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia), Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), Chief Simon Pokagon, Children in advertising, Columbia's Courtship, commercial advertising, commercial art, Diamond Dyes, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, Eiffel Tower, Exhibition buildings, Expositions, Francis Xavier Luca, George B. Post (architectural firm), George Washington Gale Ferris, Gilded Age, Heinz, Heinz Ocean Pier (Atlantic City NJ), Henry Von Tilzer (1872-1946), International exhibitions, Jr. (1859–1896), Kate Greenaway Collection, Kate Greenaway Collection (Wolfsonian-FIU library), Krupp, Machinery Hall, Mad Men, Manufacturers and Liberal Arts building, Mark Twain (1835-1910), Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., North American Indians in art, Orientalism, pavilions, Penobscot Indians, Red Man's Greeting, Singer sewing machines, Soap boxes, Statues, stereographs, The Gilded Age (1873), VIP visitors, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Walter Crane (1845-1915), World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
BEYOND THE RAILS BUT NOT OFF-TRACK: THE MITCHELL WOLFSON STUDY CENTRE RAILROAD EXHIBIT AND WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY TRAIN MATERIALS
• April 1, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, children's books, collectors, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, high speed trains, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Miami Dade College, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "riding the rails", 1904-1905, A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago, aerodynamics, and Society (Exhibition: MDC Museum of Art & Design), Beyond the Rails: Notes on Trains, Bill Iverson, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, Charles L. Marshall Jr., Children's books, Cloth books, Damarys Alvarez, Dayana Gonzalez, Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947), Fire-breathing dragons, Freedom Tower, From Italy to the Americas: Italo Balbo's Seaplane Squadrons (Wolfsonian library exhibition), Gabriella Perez, Garman Ranck, Giants Lighter Than Air (Wolfsonian library exhibit), Glacier National Park, Henry Dreyfuss (1904-1972), hobos, Ill.), Indians in commercial art, Industrial designers, Irina Slizskaya, Isthmus of Panama, Javier Gonzalez, Lea Nickless, Lisa Sole Williams, locomotives, London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Melissa Diaz, Melvin M. Hunt Jr., Michael Rosario, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Sudy Centre, Mo), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Olga Garcia Mayoral, Panama Canal, progress, Quaker Oats Company, Rafael Rodriguez, Railroads, Raymond Loewy (1893-1986), Richard L. Tooke, Russo-Japanese War, Saalfield Muslin books, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Stephanie Hadad, Streamlined locomotives, Trains, transcontinental railroads, travel, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago: 1893), Yanai Nassar
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