Archive for November, 2017
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: An Imperial Funeral During the First World War
• November 30, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Austria, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Photograph albums, photography, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Austro-Hungarian Emperor Francis Joseph I (1830-1916), Austro-Hungarian Empire, coffins, Crown Prince Otto, Emperor Charles, Emperor Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian Empire), Empress Zita, funerals, Habsburgs, Kings, Otto von Habsburg, processions, rulers, Vienna (Austria)
Oui, Je Parle Français! FIU French Language Students Encounter Museum Founder Micky Wolfson
• November 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, displays, ethnohistory, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic designers, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, Orientalism, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abecediaries, Albert Laprade (1883-1978), Alfred Janniot, Alfred Janniot (1889-1969), alphabet books, Art Nouveau, Austria, bas relief, calendars, Colonial expositions, colonizers, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Exposition Universelle (Paris: 1900), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, French, French architects, French language students, Holocaust Memorial (Miami Beach), human zoos, Huts, Julius Klinger (1876-1942), Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age (Wolfsonian exhibition), Léon Jaussely (1875-1932), Le Cercle Francais, Musée Permanent des Colonies, Palais de la Porte Doree, Paris, pavilions, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Selling the Golden Leaf (Wolfsonian library installation), sub-Saharan Africa, Tobacco, Vichy France, viewbooks
The G.I. and Democracy
• November 9, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Armistice Day, Fascism, FDR, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Philippines, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), veterans, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Australia: our neighbor 'down under'", "Can war marriages be made to work?", "Can we prevent future wars?", "Is the Good Neighbor Policy a success?", "Our Russian ally", "Shall I build a house after the war?", "The Balkans", "What is propaganda?", "What lies ahead for the Philippines?", "What should be done with war criminals?", "What will your town be like?", "Will the French Republic live again?", "Will there be work for all?", All Quiet on the Western Front (film : 1930), America First Committee, appeasement, Arsenal of Democracy, automatons, cartoons, Charles Lindbergh, democracy, Donald Duck, F. Karr, Fascists, G.I. Bill, G.I. roundtable discussions, G.I.s, Heroes for Sale (film : 1933), interventionism, isolationism, Joseph Kennedy, League of Nations, Lend-Lease Bill, merchants of death, Nazis, Neutrality Act legislation, Pamphlets, Pearl Harbor, persuasion, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Woodrow Wilson, Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, Senator Gerald Nye, Serviceman's Readjustment Act, The Negro Soldier (film : 1944), Veterans Day, War is a Racket / Major General Smedley D. Butler, war profiteers, Why We Fight (film)
Loco for the Locomobile
• November 2, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, automobile design, Ford Motor Company, Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1902, Andrew Riker, assembly line production, automotive engineers, autos, cars, convertibles, coupes, Durant Motors, Ford Model T, gasoline-powered vehicles, Great Depression, internal combustion engine, limousines, Locomobile Company of America, Locomobile Model C, November 2, racecar drivers, roadsters, sedans, steam-powered vehiciles, T. M. Cleland, touring cars
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