Archive for the '1915' Category
Weaponized Wit: WWI Lampoons of Kaiser Wilhelm
• September 4, 2018 • 1 CommentPosted in 1915, American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: art handlers, Ayme Cameron, caricatures, cartoons, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Stotts, collecting cards, Drawings, games, helmets, Henry Hacker, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), lanpoons, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Moses, mustaches, Satire, Shoulder Arms (film : 1918), spiders, Stephanie Diaz, Steve Forero-Paz, student-curated exhibits, Wit As Weapon (Wolfsonian library installation), Yankee Doodle in Berlin (film : 1919)
A Wolfsonian Commemoration of the opening of the Suez Canal on this date, 1869
• November 17, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, 1930s, airplanes, Balochistan, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Middle East, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Photograph albums, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, War Photography, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Abu-Sueir (airforce base), Alexandria (Egypt), ANZAC, Australian soldiers, British Empire, British occupation of Egypt, Canals, cruisers, Egypt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, First World War (1914-1918), Great Britain, H.M.S. Hampshire, Himilayah (auxilary cruiser), New Zealand soldiers, Port Said (Egypt), RAF, Royal Air Force, Suez Canal, warships, WWI
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RMS LUSITANIA: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ONE HUNDRED YEARS (AND ONE DAY) LATER
• May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: atrocities, cartoons, civilian casualties, contraband, Cruiser Rules, Cunard, Dachshunds, devils, drowning, Elbert Hubbard, German sympathizers, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Ireland, Isador and Ida Straus, John Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Herod, Liverpool, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mauritania, Mexican intervention 1914, military preparedness, Miss Liberty, moustaches, Norddeutscher Lloyd, ocean liners, passengerships, peace at any price, pickelhaube helmets, pirates, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, Richard Preston Prichard, RMS Lusitania, Satan, scarecrows, Sealions, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, steamships, strawmen, strict neutrality, submarines, Thomas C. Ragan, torpedoes, U-20, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, white feathers, World War (1914-1918), WWI
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