Archive for October, 2014
HALLOWEEN, WOLFSONIAN-STYLE: DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, AND THE HORRORS OF THE “GREAT WAR”
• October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Florida International University, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Anton Kaes, Armistice (November 11th 1918), barbed wire, Camouflage, Cesare (film character), civilian casualties, coffins, Count Orlok, Cubism, Death, defoliated trees, Dr. Caligari (film character), F. W. Nurnau, Film noir, flu, Full Speed Ahead! (newspaper), G. Pretty's Kultur (water-color painting), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Halloween, Holstenwall, hypnotism, influenza, influenza pandemic (1918-1919), insane asylums, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), military conscription, movie reviews, movie sets, Nosferatu (film: 1922), plague, prophesy, psychiatrists, rat hunts, Rats, Red Cross, shadows, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, shell-bursts, Shell-shock, showmen, silent film classics, Silent Shriek (Wolfsonian film series), social criticism, somnambulists, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1921), the Great War (1914-1918), Transylvania, Trench warfare, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière / [painting by] Andre Brouillet (1886), Vampires, Vermin, war and film, war artists, War casualties, war crimes, war neurosis, William Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960), World War (1914-1918), Wounded war veterans, zombies
It’s The Great War, Charlie Brown, or: First World War Images from the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• October 22, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, donations, First World War (1914-1918), gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, photography, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: biplanes, Canada, Cavalry, Charles M. Shulz, Chemical warfare, flying aces, France, gas attacks, Gas masks, Gender roles, German Gotha, Germany, Halloween, hogs, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Linus, Manfred von Richthofen (the “Red Baron” 1892-1918), Maps, Morocco, Nicholas II Emperor of Russia (1868-1918), Peanuts, Rosie the Riveter, rotogravure, Snoopy, Switzerland, the Great War (1914-1918), The New York Times, United States, war, Women war workers
WE DID RETURN: MEL VICTOR’S WWII PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PHILIPPINES AT THE WOLFSONIAN
• October 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Pacific campaign (WWII), Philippines, photography, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, veterans, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Aerial photography, Battle of Manila (Feb. 1945), Beauty contests, Beauty pageants, Combat photograhers, Donna Victor, General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Gulf of Leyte, Imperial Japanese Navy, Japanese Imperial Navy, Leyte Island (the Philippines), Mel Victor (1923-2003), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Photograph Collection, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, War photography
POSTERS, PICTOGRAPHS, PICTOGRAMS, AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 17, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, archives, Artists, book art, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), student curators, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, 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-flag shipping, An Official Guide to the Army Air Forces, Booklets, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, Farm Security Administration (FSA), FIU Professor Ken Lipartito, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Greenbelt Towns: A Demonstration in Suburban Planning, Guide for Members of REA Cooperatives, Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965), Lester Beall (1903-1969), Little Waters: A Study of Headwater Streams & Other Little Waters, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, Miami Beach City Hall Archive, Michael Golec, Migrants of the Crops, Pictograms, Pictographs, Pictorial graphics, pictorial statistics, posters, Public History, Resettlement Administration (RA), Robert T. Beall (REA economist), Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Sand in Their Boots, Sarah Rovang, shipbuilding, Statistically-Speaking (Wolfsonian library exhibit), statistics, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Their Use and Relations to the Land, U.S. Army Air Force, U.S. Maritime Commission
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
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