Archive for June, 2015
LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION ON THE SUPREME COURT RULING ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• June 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, Art Deco, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1920s, Art Deco, dancers, Folies Bergere, Frank MacCoy Harshberger (1900-1975), gay marriage, graphic artists, illustrated books, Kay Harshberger, life partners, lyricists, music composers, Nina Payne, Paris, same-sex marriage, Sheet music covers
SOMEWHERE I’LL FIND YOU, OR, PUBLISHERS’ DECORATIVE BINDINGS ON THE PHILIPPINES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 22, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manila (Philippines), Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, publishers' decorative bindings, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Carole Lombard, China, China Seas, Clark Gable, Filipinos, Japan, Margherita Arlina Hamm, Philippine Insurrection, Rochelle Pienn, Second World War, Somewhere I'll Find You (film), Spanish- American War of 1898, Spotwood's Expedition, U.S. Army
THE DECO DECADES: THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT
• June 17, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, architects, architecture, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Historic Art Deco District (Miami Beach Fla.), hotels, Lawrence Wiggins III, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., restaurants, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1930s, 1940s, Art Deco (architecture), art handlers, Carlos Alejandro, deinstallation, drinking establishments, Entertainment, Exhibition installation, Five O'Clock Club, Henry Hohauser, Hotels, Latin Quarter, Lawrence Wiggins III, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach Centennial, Modern architecture, Nicolae Harsanyi, Nightclubs, Steve Forero-Paz, tourism, tourists, Waldorf Towers (Miami Beach Fla.), Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
BURMESE DAZE, OR, A BRITISH OASIS IN PICTURES AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 16, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Burma, Ceylon, colonialism, Dover (England), Golden Pagoda, Great Britain, India, Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, photography, Rangoon, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Adrian Jones, Captain Henry Marshall Barnes, Felice Beato, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Northumberland Artillery, photograph albums, Queen Victoria, Rochelle Pienn
ALL ASHORE: SOME NEWLY ARRIVED OCEAN LINER MATERIALS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• June 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Uncategorized
A BRIEF POST FOR “WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR” FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• June 12, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Christopher DeNoon, donations, FDR, Great Depression, library donors, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, photography, political art, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Archibald MacLeish’s Land of the Free (1938), Art Deco illustrators, Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), child labor, Christopher DeNoon, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education Movement, documentary photography, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), Ernest Fiene, Farm Secuirty Administration (FSA), Francis Xavier Luca, FSA photographers, graphic statistics, Great Depression, John Vassos (1898-1985), Jon Mogul, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., mural studies, New Deal America, newspaper boys, pictographic statistics, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Rudolf Modley, Russell Lee (1903-1986), shoe-shine boys, Sweat shops, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, World Day Against Child Labour
METADATA AT THE MUSEUM, OR, THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU INTERSECTS WITH THE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA ARCHIVISTS
• June 9, 2015 • 2 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: Althea Silvera, Beatrice Skokan, Carlos E. Prado Herrera, Coconut Grove, Cory Czajkowski, Derek Merleaux, Emily Gibson, Florida International University, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, metadata, Miami, Miami Metropolis, Miami-Dade Public Library, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pan Courtelis, Rochelle Pienn, SobekCM, Society of Florida Archivists, University of Florida, University of Miami Richter Library (Coral Gables), Wolfsonian-FIU
PICTOGRAMS: GRAPHIC STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL ACTION IN NEW DEAL AMERICA: SOME NEWLY CATALOGUED AND DIGITIZED ITEMS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• June 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, exhibitions, Frost Museum, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches of America, FIU professors, graphic statistics, Ken Lipartito, Michael Golec, Pictograms, pictographic statistics, Pilgrim Press (Boston), researchers, residential fellows, Sarah Rovang, sit-down strikes, Social Action (magazine), Social Gospel, Social justice issues, Wolfsonian fellows
THE MOSCOW METRO: A WOLFSONIAN COMMEMORATION OF A SUBTERRANEAN PALACE OF THE PEOPLE
• June 3, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Communism, Communists, donations, gifts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian architecture, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: air-raid shelters, Art Deco style, Famine, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Forced agrarian collectivization, Frederic A. Sharf, Isaac Y. Segal, Ivan Kuznetsov, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), kulaks, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (1893-1991), London Underground, Metro, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Siege of Moscow (1941), Socialist Realism, subways, Ukraine, underground, undergrounds
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