Archive for October, 2015
A Dedication to Liberty: A Wolfsonian—FIU Reflection on the Anniversary of the Dedication of the Statue of Liberty
• October 28, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, Artists, Children's propaganda books, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Fascism, First World War (1914-1918), gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), international expositions, Italy, leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Nazism, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Scottsboro Trial, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923), “Liberty Enlightening the World”, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-1879), France, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), John Q. Public, Ku Klux Klan, Lady Liberty, Marianne, Natacha Carlu, Statue of Liberty, U.S. President Grover Cleveland, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-1991), Victory Gold Levi Collection
Achille’s Keel: A Wolfsonian Glimpse of the Achille Lauro on the Anniversary of the Hijacking
• October 10, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Dr. Laurence Miller, Indian Ocean, Laurence Miller Collection, Mediterranean Sea, oceanliners
Tags: Achille Lauro (ship), collisions at sea, cruise ships, fires, hijackings, Leon Klinghoffer, MS Willem Ruys (ship), Palestine Liberation Organization, passenger ships, PLO, Rotterdamsche Lloyd, Ship sinkings, terrorists, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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