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Divergent Perspectives of Emperor Ménélik II: From Satirical to Honorable Tributes
• April 16, 2024 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Ethiopia, graphic arts, Italy, museums, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Battle of Adwa (1896), caricatures, Charles Léandre, chocolate promotional materials, Chocolaterie D’Aiguebelle, collecting cards, East Africa, emperors, Ethiopia, First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), FIU students, Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi, Le Rire (magazine), Matthieu Castillo, Ménélik II (Emperor of Ethiopia), Négus, stereotypes, Treaty of Addis Ababa (1896), Wolfsonian interns
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 28, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, African American History, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), African-American actors, African-American athletes, African-American law students, African-American singers, African-American valedictorians, African-Americans, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Blacks, Columbia Law School, Earl Schenck Miers (1910-1972), Fiction, Fictional biographies, Harriett Tubman (1820-1913), Negro History Bulletin, Novels, Racial prejudice, Rutgers University, Vance Locke (illustrator), Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
INSTILLING PRIDE FOR FRANCE’S COLONY IN MADAGASCAR: A RECENT ADDITION TO THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 20, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, accessioning, acquisitions, architecture, Artists, book art, cataloging, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, France, gardens, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, theatre, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: “civilizing missions”, Beaux-Arts architecture, colonialism, color pochoir prints, Dreamworks' Madagascar (film), Exoticism, Florida International University graduates, French colonies, indigenous peoples, Joseph Galliéni (1849-1916), lemurs, M. L. Lamy, Madagascar, Michel Potop, Pierre Portelette (1890-1971), pochoirs, progress, Second French Empire
From Verdun to Vichy: Maréchal Petain and his Social Revolution
• April 19, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, cataloging, collectors, donations, Fascism, France, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, totalitarian, veterans, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: abortion, Axis, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), Colonies, Cult of the leader, Dakar, Famille, family values, France, Frankish axe, Free Zone, French mandate, French society, German occupation, La Patrie, Library Assistant Michel Potop, Maréchal de France, Maréchal nous voila, Michel Potop, National Revolution, nationalism, Nazi Germany, Occupied France, Patrie, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), propaganda, Resistance, Second World War, Symbols, Syria, Third Republic (1870-1940), traditional values, Travail, Verdun, veterans, Vichy, Vichy militia
WOLFSONIAN FELLOW JILL BUGAJSKI DELIVERS HER PARTING PRESENTATION AS FORMER FELLOW ELIZABETH HEATH PREPARES AN EXHIBIT AT THE FROST MUSEUM
• February 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, accessioning, acquisitions, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Elinor Brecher, exhibitions, FDR, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, Popular Front, portfolios, posters, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, silk screen, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: 1852-1935), America First Committee, American Fascists, American Nazis, British Colonialism, Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975), caricatures, Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dr. O. J. Currie, Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), Fifth Columnists, FIU Professor Elizabeth Heath, Gerald Nye (1892-1971), Grey;s Hospital (Maritsburg), H. Smith Richardson, Hospitals, Hugo Gellert, Jill Bugajski, John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), Lord Dundonald (Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane: 12th Earl of Dundonald, Major-General Sir Redvers Henry Buller (1839-1908), manuscripts, Martin Dies (1900-1972), Nazi sympathizers, Norman Thomas (1884-1968), Nurse Kate Driver, Nurses, Nursing, Philip Fox La Follette (1897-1965), photograph albums, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), R. Douglas Stuart (1916-), Rochelle Pienn, Second Boer War (1899-1900), Siege of Ladysmith, Silver Legion of America, Silver Shirts, typescripts, Typhoid fever, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Wolfsonian fellows
THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIANS RAISE THEIR VOICES
• February 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Boers, British Army, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, David Almeida, Dennis Wiedman, Digital Library Specialist, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Acisclo Fernandez, Alfred Dreyfus, Ana Ochoa, Andrea Doria, Augustus John Lavie, Austrian Secession, Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), British colonies, Children's propaganda books, China, Christopher DiCarlo, Cold War, Cristina Pereda, David Almeida, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dreyfus Affair, Edouard Benedictus, Emile Zola, FIU History Professor Elizabeth Heath, FIU Professor Dennis Wiedman, FIU Professor Raul Reis, FIU Professor Yvette Piggush, French anti-Semitism, German-occupied France, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Japanese internment, Jill Bugajski, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Michel Potop, Mongolia, Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis), pochoir prints, Rochelle Pienn, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sand in their Boots (event), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharon Gooden, South African War (1899-1902), Tibet, Valentine's Day, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, Wolfsonian fellows, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellow Peril
THE CCC AS SEEN BY THE YOUNG ENROLLEES: A RECENT PROMISED GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 7, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, collectors, Digital Library Specialist, donations, FIU students, Florida International University students, forestry, gifts, Great Depression, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, youth movements
Tags: CCC camps, drought, Dust Bowl, Emergency Conservation Work bill, flood control, forest fires, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Hyde Park (New York), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Oregon, promised gifts, Roosevelt's "Tree Army", soil erosion, Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA), Washington state, yearbooks
GLIMPSES OF THE EAST: LARGE GIFT OF RARE WORKS ABOUT THE FAR EAST ARRIVE AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 3, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, bindings, cruise ships, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: China, Christopher Columbus, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, diaries, East Indies, Edward Greey, Japan, Japanese fairy tales, Korea, medical missionaries, Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), photograph albums, travel literature, Treaty of Kanagawa
WOLFSONIAN PROFILE: LIBRARY INTERNS ALEXANDER GORDON AND JOSELYN NARANJO
• June 16, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, displays, donations, exhibitions, Far East, Federal Writers' Project, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FWP, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, interns, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russo-Japanese War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Alexander Gordon, American Guide Series, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, David Almeida, Elections, Francis Xavier Luca, Gardner Museum (Boston), Joselyn Naranjo, Lexington Green, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), political campaigns, Port Arthur, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Rochelle Pienn, See America campaign
WOLFSONIAN PROFILE: LIBRARY VOLUNTEER, ARMANDO SUAREZ
• November 13, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in accessioning, Armando Suarez, cataloging, Dr. Laurence Miller, preservation, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: interns, library volunteers
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