Archive for the 'Digital Library Specialist' Category
SCHOLARS MEET WITH WOLFSONIAN SUPPORTER TO DISCUSS ACADEMIC AND EXHIBITION PROJECTS TAPPING THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION
• March 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, bindings, Boers, book art, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, curator, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Far East, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, Florida International University, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, History Department, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, Medicine, Modesto Maidique campus, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), museums, Orientalism, Photograph albums, photography, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish-American War, Styled for the Road (Exhibition), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, Utility scheme garments, VIP vistors, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1938-1951 (exhibition); Beauty as Duty: Textiles and the Home Front in WWII Britain (exhibition), Abyssinia, Academic Programs Manager Peter Clericuzio, Assistant Professor of Chinese Art History Lidu Yi, Assistant Professor of History Elizabeth Heath, Boer War (1899-1902), Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston), British Empire, Curator Jon Mogul, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), Frederic A. Sharf, Frost Museum (Florida International University), Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, Keep Calm and Carry On: World War II and the British Home Front, Library Assistant Michel Potop, Libya, Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy (exhibit), Museum of Fine Art (Boston), Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach), Philip K. Hu, Professor David Rifkind, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), St. Louis Art Museum, T. W. Pietsch
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
“BACK TO WORK” EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 26, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in American left artists, Christopher DeNoon, curator, Digital Library Specialist, exhibitions, FDR, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Great Depression, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: art handlers, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), David Almeida, Describing Labor (exhibition), Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Great Depression, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, James Taylor, labor leaders, labor movement, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, New Deal, Rosita Maria Sosa, strikes, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, World War II
BARON MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU, THE NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM, AND THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 15, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, cars, collectors, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, Ford Motor Company, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, school visits to The Wolfsonian, streamlined cars, Styled for the Road, Styled for the Road (Exhibition), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore W. Pietsch, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertising American Automobiles Abroad (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), antique cars, automobiles, automotive ephemera, Beaulieu (Hampshire County England), David Almeida, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu (3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu), Futuristic vehicles, Mantagu Motor Museum, motor cars, Museum founders, National Motor Museum, Packard automobiles, Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design (1908-1948), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), vintage cars
POLITICAL PERSUASION FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA
• October 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Artists, Blue eagle, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FTP, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), It Can't Happen Here, leftist artists, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), NRA, persuasive arts, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, theatrical producers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: 1932 Presidential election, 1936 Presidential election, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Antoni Muntadas, assassinations, Brain-Trusters, campaign songs, campaign spots, Communist Pary of the United States, Communists, CPUSA, crown of thorns, Democratic donkey, dictators, ephemera, Every Man A King, fascist dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, General Hugh Johnson, Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Chavez, It Can't happen Here, Marshall Reese, My FIrst Days in the White House, National Recovery Administration (NRA), Norman Thomas, Political Advertisement VII: 1952-2008, Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera form The Wolfsonian-FIU Collection, presidential elections, public building, Public Works Projects, Radio Priest, redistribution of wealth, Republican elephant, Road construction, Share Our Wealth Societies, Sinclair Lewis, Socialists, the Kingfish, William Randolph Hearst
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
GOOD NEIGHBOR FLEET EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• June 2, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Argentina, Brazil, collectors, cruise ships, Digital Library Specialist, Disney, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FDR, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Nazism, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, ocean liners, passenger ships, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Ada Peacock, Animators, Aquarela do Brazil (cartoon), Argentine State Line, art handlers, ashtrays, Brazil, cartoons, CIAA, cruises, David Almeida, deck plans, Donald Duck, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Good Neighbor Fleet, Good Neighbor Policy, Goofy, illustrators, inaugural speeches, James Taylor, Jose Carioca, Laurence Miller, matchcovers, menus, Michel Potop, Moore-McCormack Lines, Musical cartoons, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, postcards, S.S. Argentina, S.S. Brazil, S.S. Uruguay, Saludos Amigos (cartoon 1943), South America, Steve Forero-Paz, Thomas C. Ragan, Uruguay, Walt Disney
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: A HODGE-PODGE OF MATERIALS PULLED FOR A VARIETY OF WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY VISITORS
• May 26, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley, book art, Christopher DeNoon, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Cuba, Cuba Style, David Almeida, decorative arts, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FTP, Futurism, Genoa, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Holocaust, international expositions, Italian design, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mellon curriculum development grant, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Shenandoah Middle School, Spanish-American War, Steve Heller, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Virtual library displays, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, World's fairs, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968), Alexander Gordon, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Bacardi archivist Patricia Suau, Bauhaus, Bill Bradley (1868-1962), calendars, Caribbean tourism, comparative colonialism, Conrado W. Massaguer, Dopolavoro, Fascist Italy, Festa dell'Uva di Rovereto, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Good Neighbor Fleet, Graphic Design & Advertising Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Hendrick Nicolaas Werkman (1882-1945), Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), International exhibitions, Italian Futurism, Ken Botnick, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), Margaret Dikovitskaya, Mellon grant recipiants, Miami Ad School, Moore-McCormack Lines, New Deal America, Nicolas, Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), Paul Iribe (1883-1935), Professor Peter Andrew, Rex Chung, Rosanne Gibel, Stephen Austin University (Texas), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Thomas C. Ragan, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Varadero Beach (Cuba), When Hearts Are Trumps / by Tom Hall, wine, Wine Bubbly and Their Merchants (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), Winifred Elysse Newman, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
A NOTE FROM THE WOLFSONIAN’S DIGITAL LIBRARY SPECIALIST
• April 22, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in Digital Library Specialist, displays, exhibitions
Tags: curators, David Almeida, library exhibits, Matthew Abess, poetry, Rewriting the World
CONGRATULATIONS TO ONE OF OUR OWN!
• January 21, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, David Almeida, Digital Library Specialist, photography, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, West Prize, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Photographers
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