Archive for June, 2014
Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away, or, What I Did on My Summer Leave from The Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• June 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, Rare Book School, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: A. J. Lavie, albumen prints, Alderman library, ambrotypes, Atelier Boba, carbon prints, collodion prints, cyanotypes, daguerreotypes, darkrooms, Frederic Houlton Summers, gelatin prints, H. W. Benson, Image Permanence Institute (IPI), India, James M. Reilly, Japan, kallitypes, Kodachrome, Panama, photograph albums, photographs, Photography, platinotypes, Polaroid, Professional development, Rare Book School (Charlottesville VA), Ryan Boatright, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Thomas Jefferson, tintypes, Tosco Peppe, University of Virginia
A LUXURIOUS TOUR DE FORCE: LE MIAMI, AMERICAN EXCURSIONIST, AND THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• June 14, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, cars, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, transatlantic voyages, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition), world cruises
Tags: advertising, Air travel, airships, American Excursionist, Around the world cruises, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas, Blackfeet Indians, Blackstone Cigar, Buick (automobile), Buses, California Limited (train), Canadian Pacific (railroad), Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Children's books, Clyde-Mallory Lines, Cuba, Cuban National Tourist Commission, Digital Asset Manager Derek Merleaux, Digital Resources Photographer David Almeida, domestic tourism, Downtown Miami (Fla.), Empire Builder (train), Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Frederic A. Sharf, golf courses, Gondolas, Great Hurricane of 1926, Greyhound (bus service), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Highway Traveler (magazine), Hindenburg (airship), Hotel Varadero, Hurricanes, Illinois Central Railroad, Indians in commercial art, Laurence Miller Collection, LE Miami (tradeshow), Little Havana, luxury hotels, luxury liners, Luxury travel, Maps, Mediterranean-revival style architecture, menus, Miami Beach Centennial, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nautilus Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), North American Indians in art, Oriental Limited (train), Panama Line, Planes, polo grounds, Pueblo Indians, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the elephant, Sabena (airline), Sans Souci (nightclub), Santa Fe (railroad), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sightseeing tours, Snowbirds, South Beach (Florida), Souvenirs, Swimming pools, T. W. Pietsch, Tea dances, Tennis courts, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Washington Storage Company (Miami Beach Fla.), Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Wolfsonian library exhibit), zeppelins
FROM GERMAN-OCCUPATION TO D-DAY AND ALLIED LIBERATION: WAR PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
• June 7, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, Children's propaganda books, donations, FIU, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic designers, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Occupied France, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, 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, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Blitzkrieg, Casablanca (film: 1942), Casablanca (French Morocco), D-Day, Envelopes, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), FIU Professor Maria Garcia, General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), General Henri Giraud (1879-1949), La bête est morte!, Marshall Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Martijn F. Le Coultre, National Doughnut Day, Normandy (France), Operation Overlord, Phoney war, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Regina Bailey, Salvation Army, Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), Sitzkrieg
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