Archive for the 'colonial propaganda' Category
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
The Feminine Touch: The Artwork of Two French Africanists
• May 12, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architecture, Artists, book art, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, France, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Orientalism, pochoirs, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, women, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, African proverbs, Algiers, artists, Au pays de Samba Diouf, Cameroon-Togo, Colonial administrators, colonial governors, colonialism, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), female artists, Francis Xavier Luca, French colonies, French mandates, French overseas territories, indigenous architecture, indigenous peoples, Léon Truitard (1885-1972), Leon Truitard, Mary Morin, Palais de la Porte, Paris, pavilions, pochoir prints, Quelques images de la grande exposition colonial, Senegal, stencil works, Sudan, Suzanne (née Balliste) Truitard (1893-1986), Suzanne Truitard, Territoires Africains sous mandat de la France (Cameroun-Togo), Watercolor paintings, wood engravers, wood engraving
Celebrating the Legacy of Josephine Baker
• December 16, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, African American History, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, colonial propaganda, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, erotic art, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, playbills, programs, promotional materials, racism, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Art Deco, Cabarets, celebrations, celebrities, civil rights, Consulate General of France in Miami, Copa City (nightclub : Miami Beach), cosmopolitanism, Croix de Guerre, dancers, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Folies Bergere, French Pantheon, French Resistance, Havana (Cuba), Jazz Age, Jim Crow, Joséphine à Bobino 1975 (revue), Josephine Baker, Legion d'honneur, March on Washington (1963), modernism, naturalism, Paris (France), Paul Colin, performers, pochoirs, primitivism, Princess Tam-Tam (film : 1935), racism, segregation, singers, Siren of the Tropics (silent film : 1927), the Charleston (dance), Tropicana (Nightclub), Zouzou (film : 1934)
France’s Overseas Empire on Display
• November 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Deco, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, Albert Laprade, Alfred Janniot, Anja Decker, Arthur Dupagne, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, Dahomey, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, France's overseas empire, Francophiles, French colonies, gender, human zoos, indigenous peoples, interracial couples, Jaussely, Madagascar, modernism, Musée Permanent des Colonies, native peoples, North Africa, nudes, Palais de la Porte Doree, pavilions, Petit Journal, postcards, posters, primitivism, sculpture, Senegal, Strange Couple (painting : 1934)
Italian Ethiopia at The Wolfsonian Library
• August 6, 2019 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abissinia, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Akbaba (magazine), anthropology, anti-imperialism, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Ascari troops, atrocities, Aurelio Bertiglia, Autarky, Battle of Adwa, Benito Mussolini, Black Venus, British Somaliland, calendars, caricatures, collecting cards, Compagnia Italiana Liebig (Milano), Daniel Morris, East Africa, Enrico Cerulli, Eritrea, fans, fasces, gallows, General Baratieri, Haile Selassie, Harry Gannes, Historical Design, History Revealed, Il Travaso delle Idee, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), James De Lorenzi, James W. Ford, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, League of Nations, Maps, March on Rome (1922), Marshal Graziani, Menelik II, military conquest, Ministero Africa Italiana, National Fascist Party (PNF), Nero, North African migrants, Orientalism, Orientalists, poison gas, postcards, Red Cross, road-building, school notebooks, sexual conquest, Sheet music covers, slavery, Tanks, Vulcania (steamship)
Memorial Day Reflections on the Spanish-American War and World War II
• May 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, archives, book art, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, Cuba, curators, displays, donations, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Green Library, History Department, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, Manila (Philippines), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Monroe County Public Library (Key West, museums, Philippines, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, publishers' decorative bindings, Puerto Rico, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: "Sand in their Boots" Collection, Admiral George Dewey, Anne Layton Rice, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command (Miami Beach), Battle of Kettle Hill, Cuba, Cuban Independence wars, Evangelina Cisneros, fans, Frederic A. Sharf, Frederick Remington, General Valeriano Weyler, Havana (Cuba), human zoos, interns, Joseph Pulitzer, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Julia Ricks, Karl Decker, Manila Bay, maritime disasters, memorabilia, Memorial Day, Miami Beach (Florida), Monroe County Public Library (Key West, New York Journal (newspaper), New York World (newspaper), pillowcases, postcards, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, propaganda, Puerto Rico, reconcentration camps, Remember the Maine!, reporters, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rough Riders, Samal Moros (Philippines), Sheet music covers, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Spanish- American War of 1898, Taina Caragol, The Philippines, Tim Rodgers, U.S. Army Air Forces, U.S. colonial possessions, USS Maine (Battleship), veterans, Vicki Gold Levi, war artists, war correspondents, war hysteria, warships, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), yearbooks, Yellow journalism
The Harlem Renaissance Comes to The Wolfsonian
• February 22, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, African American History, Artists, bindings, Civil Rights Movement, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, decorative arts, displays, donations, erotic art, ethnohistory, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, pochoirs, portfolios, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aaron Douglas, African American art, African American artists, African American performers, African American poets, Alain LeRoy Locke, America & Movies: The Black Image in Hollywood and History, Body and Soul (film: 1925), Charles Cullen, colonialism, Countee Cullen, Daniel Morris, Elanor Colburn, Folies Bergere, Harlem Renaissance, Harmon Foundation, Historical Design, James Weldon Johnson, Jazz Age, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Le Tumulte Noir, Mabel Dwight, madonna, Miguel Covarrubias, modernism, mothers and children, NAACP, naturalism, Negro Uplift, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Colin, Paul Robeson, poetry, primitivism, the Charleston (dance), The Crisis, The Emperor Jones (film: 1933), The New Negro: An Interpretation, Winold Reiss, Zora Neale Hurston
Holiday Gifts
• December 14, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, book art, children's books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, displays, donations, Egypt, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, portfolios, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African expeditions, Art Basel, automobiles, Bedouins, Berbers, Catholic missionaries, Charles de Roucauld (1858-1916), Colonial expositions, Daniel Morris, Eiffel Tower, France's overseas empire, French (language), French colonies, German-occupied France, human zoos, Huts, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Jean Sharf, Jim nd Martha Sweeny, Lake Chad, Le Tumulte Noir, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, martyrs, Midways, missionaries, Paris, Paul Colin, primitivism, Professor Antonieta Garcia, Sahara desert, Streets of Cairo, Tripoli, Tuareg peoples
Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial Views of Africa
• July 26, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Fascism, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Zulus
Tags: 1910, 1935, 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (Paris), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Adua (Ethiopia), Africa, Africans, Africans in art, Akbaba (Turkish periodical), Arthur Dupagne, Belgian Congo, Benito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Botswana, Brussels, Burkina Faso, calendars, Cameroon, Carl Weller, Children's propaganda books, collecting cards, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, colonialism, Colonies, Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, diaries, displays, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Exhibition buildings, games, Ghana, Guinea, Huts, Italian Empire, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), La Barre à Mine (Mining Bar), Lamy, Laurence Miller, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mandela Washington fellows, menus, Namibia, Nazis, Niger, Nigeria, ocean liners, pavilions, photograph albums, photographs, postcards, propaganda, Rwanda, S.S. Leopoldville, Samoliland, Scrapbooks, sculpture, Sketchbooks, South Africa, Steve Heller, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Union Castle Line, Woermann-Linie, Zambia, Zanxibar, Zulus
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
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