Archive for August, 2017
The Red Cross in Time of War
• August 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, Ethiopia, First aid, First World War (1914-1918), Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1864, Adolphus Solomons, ambulances, American Red Cross, atrocities, August 22, Broadsides, Clara Barton, Edith Cavell, emblems, ephemera, Frederic A. Sharf, Geneva convention, Hospitals, International Red Cross, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jean-Henri Dunant, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Ladysmith (South Africa), mechanical works, medical personnel, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Periodicals, photograph albums, postcards, posters, Red Cross, Red Cross dogs, Red Cross nurses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sheet music covers, South African War (1899-1902), Swiss flag, tents, Woodrow Wilson
Eureka! Gold Strike Made in the Yukon Territory on this Date in History
• August 16, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in book art, children's books, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "Klondike Fever", "Yukon outfits", Alaska, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (Seattle: 1909), Canada, First Nations, George Carmack, gold, gold panning, gold prospectors, gold rushes, gold strikes, Jack London, Klondike River, Native Americans, riverbeds, salmon, Skookum Jim, souvenir medallions, Tagish Charlie, Yukon Territory
Canal Inaugural
• August 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, France, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1914, Albert Edward, albumen prints, Ancon (steamship), August 15 1914, Canals, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, dredges, Five Years at Panama, Maps, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama: the canal the country and the people, photograph albums, telegrams, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Wolfred Nelson
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