Archive for July, 2015
BIG GAME HUNTING AND “WILD ANIMAL” SPECTACLES IN THE WOLFSONIAN MUSEUM COLLECTION
• July 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Abbott and Costello, Africa Screams (film: 1949), Animals Are Like That (book: 1939), big game hunting, black maned lion, Botswana, Bring 'em Back Alive (book: 1930), Bring 'Em Back Alive (film: 1932), Cecil the lion, Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonialism, dentists, Entertainment, Fang and Claw (book: 1935), Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck (1884-1950), Frank Buck's Jungle Camp, game preserves, George Lipscombe, International exhibitions, Jacare (film: 1942), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Joseph Marro, Jungle Camp, Jungle Cavalcade (film: 1941), King Juan Carlos of Spain, Kubwa Simba (children's book: 1941), Masai warriors, Midways, National Parks, New York World's Fair (1939-1940), On Jungle Trails (book: 1936), pith helmets, Poachers, poaching, posters, safaris, Tiger Fangs (film: 1943), trophy hunting, Walter Palmer, wild animal collectors, Wild Cargo (book: 1932), Wild Cargo (film: 1934), World's Fairs, WPA New Reading Materials Program, Zimbabwe, zoos
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH WESTERN EYES: VISITS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY SOME COLOMBIAN SCHOLARS AND A GROUP OF YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS
• July 15, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Boers, colonial propaganda, colonialism, decorative arts, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistory, FIU, Folklorists, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zulus
Tags: Art Deco posters, Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-?), Avram Glazer, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Block books, Boer Wars, carpets, Escuela de Diseno Grafico, Ethiopia, Frederic A. Sharf, Frijoles Canyon Pictoraphs, Great Northern Railway, Gustave Baumann, Hoke Denetsosie, Indian art, Indian culture, Indian dancers, indigenous art, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jill Glazer, John Collier, Jose Jairo Vargas, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), Luz Helena Ballestas Rincon, Maude Oakes, medicine man, Native American art, Native American culture, Navaho, Navaho rugs, Navaho War ceremonial, Navajo, Navajo Indian Reservation, New Deal, Pictographs, Plains Indians, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primers, sand paintings, Santa Fe (New Mexico), School of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, South African Wars, Symbols, Turkish periodicals, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
TWO EMPIRES, ONE PUBLISHER: TWO MONUMENTAL BOOKS IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• July 10, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Austria, bindings, collectors, donations, gifts, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Art Nouveau, Austrian Empire, Austrian history, book design, Central Europe, Devrin Weiss, elephant folios, Emperor Franz Joseph, German Empire, German history, Heinrich Lefler (1863-1919), Joh. Jos. Tautenhayn, Joseph Urban, Joseph Urban (1872-1933), Kaiser Wilhelm II, lining papers, Ludwig Huber, Max Herzig, Michael Hughes, Rudolf von Larish (1856-1934)
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