Archive for March, 2017
Tuned In: RadioFest at The Wolfsonian
• March 17, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, FDR, Florida International University, Four Freedoms speech (1941), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Italy, library donors, Mediterranean Sea, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Occupied France, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Advertisements, “Back of the Mike” (film short 1938), Benito Mussolini, Brochures, caricatures, cartoons, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fascism, Father Charles Coughlin, Federal Music Project (FMP), fireside chats, Four Freedoms speech, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvey Mattel, Herbert Hoover, Joseph Goebbels, microphones, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Moonlighter Makerspace, Nazism, New Deal, People’s Receivers, postcards, posters, propaganda, Public radio, Radio, Radio London, Radio tower transmitters, RadioFest, radios, Red Scare, Second World War, Sound recordings, The New Tropic, VoxPop, Winston Churchill, WLRN, Wolfson Archives, Works Progress Administration (WPA), World War (1839-1945), WWII
Parlez-Vous Francais? Visit to The Wolfsonian by FIU Professor and French Club
• March 10, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, book art, collectors, displays, donations, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: animals, Annuaire du syndicat des planteurs de caoutchouc de l’Indochine, Au Royaume du Bistouris, Benjamin Rabier (1864-1939), Bretagne (France), Breton, Breton (language), Cambodia, cartoons, centaurs, Eugene Louis Charpentier (1811-1890), FIU French club, French (language), Greek mythology, Gustav Adolf Mossa (1883-1971), Hyalis: petit faune aux yeux bleus, indigenous peoples, Indochina, Le Cercle Francais, Maria Antonieta Garcia, mermaids, Modern Languages Department, nurses and nursing, rubber tappers, rubber tree plantations, satyrs, sirens, Vietnam
A Wolfsonian Happy Birthday Tribute to Yellowstone National Park
• March 1, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, photography, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1871 Yellowstone expedition, Charles Marshall Jr., color lithographic prints, Colter's Hell, Detroit Photographic Company, domestic tourism, Francis Xavier Luca, fur trappers, geysers, Howard Gottlieb, John Colter, mountain men, National Parks, Native Americans, Photochroms, President Ulysses S. Grant, Railroads, souvenir folders, souvenir viewbooks, The Yellowstone Act of 1872, Thomas Moran, tourism, travel, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Yellowstone National Park
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