Archive for February, 2015
PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD?: THE BOAT SHOW, AND WAVES OF VIP VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 21, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: "Mr. Ocean Liner" (Bill Miller), American Caribbean Line, Andrea Doria (ship), Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), baggage labels, C. Colombo (ship), Commodore Ron Warwick, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Cunard Line, Cunard White Star Line, Dazzle Painting, deck plans, Disasters at sea, dockworkers, Dr. Laurence Miller, Empress of Australia (Ship), Empress of France (Ship), First class accommodations, Gdynia America Line, Good Neighbor Fleet, Home Lines, Italian Line, M.S. Stockholm (passenger ship), Maritime strike (1936-1937), Mauretania (passenger ship), menus, Miami International Boat Show, Moore-McCormack Lines, Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), ocean liners, promotional brochures, Queen Elizabeth 2 (passenger ship), Queen Mary 2 (passenger ship), R.M.S. Carinthia (Steamship), R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (steamship), R.M.S. Queen Mary (steamship), Roman Holiday (film : 1953), ship building, shipwrecks, slow-downs, Sobieski (ship), strikes, Sylvania (passenger ship), Thomas C. Ragan Collection
THE FALSE PROMISES OF PROPAGANDA: AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE GREAT WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• February 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, displays, exhibit cases, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gender, graphic arts, History Department, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, political art, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 369th Infantry Regiment, Addie Waite Hunton (1866-1943), African-Americans, American Expeditionary Force (AEF), American flags, “Negro” soldiers, Black History Month, Colonel Thomas A. Roberts, Colored troops, Croix de Guerre, E. G. Renesch (printer), Fireplaces, Hearths, Henry Lincoln Johnson (1897-1929), heroes, James Reese Europe (1881-1919), Joseph-Félix Boucher (1853-1937), Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (1878-?), Miami Ad School, Monika Pobog-Weckert, Negroes, Patriotism, prejudice, racial strife, racism, recruiting posters, segregation, the Great War, the Harlem Hellfighters, World War (1914-1918), WWI, YMCA
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