Archive for March, 2015
HE/SHE GOES TO WAR: TWO SILENT WWI MOVIES CLASSICS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU MUSEUM
• March 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communists, donations, First World War (1914-1918), gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, Anti-war movies, Bothwell Browne, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comedies, cross-dressers, cross-dressing, Eulenburg affair (1907-1909), Female impersonators, Francis Xavier Luca, General Kuno Graf von Moltke, German Empress Auguste Viktoria, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Military Secretariat Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, Guy Arnoux, Homosexuality, Howard Chandler, Julian Eltin, Kerensky’s Provisional Government, Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920), munitions factories, Navy recruiting posters, Over the Rhine (film : 1918), Pamela K. Harer, Prince of Eulenburg-Hertefeld, Red Cross nurses, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Rudy Valentino, Russian Civil War (1917-1922), Russian revolution (1917), satires, Scandals, She Goes to War (film : 1929), Silent film, swine, The adventuress (film : 1920), The Isle of Love (film : 1922), transvestites, Ulk (German satire magazine), Volunteer Aid Detachment (or VAD), war propaganda films, Wilhelm Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Germany (1882-1951), Women war workers, Yankee Doodle in Berlin (film : 1919)
THE “GREAT WAR” AND ITS SEQUEL: WWI WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT TO CLOSE, WWII EXHIBIT TO OPEN
• March 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Veterans Day, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: alphabet books, American eagle, Army barracks, At Ease: Miami Beach During the Second World War (Wolfsonian library exhibit), atlases, bathing beaches, beaches, Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), caricatures, coloring books, Cossacks, Dachshunds, dogs, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, Exhibition openings, games, geese, Geishas, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Hotels, Humpty Dumpty, John Bull, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, liberty cabbage, Liberty Loans, marching, Marianne, Miami Beach Centennial, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, military drill, military exercises, military parade, Mother Goose, Natalie Vera, nursery rhyme books, Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times, Pamphlets, parodies, pickelhaube helmets, postcards, Puzzles, Sand in their Boots (event), satires, sauerkraut, servicemen, sheet music, souvenir view books, Stephen Castellanos, syllabification books, The Children's Crusade (Wolfsonian library exhibit), the Great War, Todd Jolly, tourists, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Veterans Day
WOLFSONIAN-FIU VISIT TO THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU
• March 4, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Arch, Art Deco (architecture), Chaim Lieberperson, culture, curators, Eva Shvedova, exhibitions, exhibits, George Dzialynski, Henry Hohauser, Michel Wolfsom Sr., Miss Florida, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida, Museums, Ner Tamid, Sephardic, Shabbat, Temples, The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors, The Jewish of Florida-FIU, The Wolfsonian, Torah, tours
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