Archive for the 'ethnohistory' Category
A New Deal for the American Indian
• June 26, 2023 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Artists, book art, Civilian Conservation Corps, dance, ethnohistory, FAP, Federal One, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, Folklorists, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Jews, law, Legal affairs, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Photograph albums, photography, programs, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements
Tags: American Indian Defense Association, assimilation, calendar of events, CCC, Christian missionaries, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), dances, dancing, Dawes Severalty Act (1887), Democratic National Convention, Emergency Conservation Work Agency, FAP, FDR, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Felix Cohen, Francis Xavier Luca, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), FWP, Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940 : San Francisco), Great Depression, Harold L. Ickes, Index of American Design, Indian boarding schools, Indian culture, Indian Reorganization Act (1934), Indian reservations, Indian Territory, John Collier, Native American traditions, Navajo code talkers, New Dealers, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Roosevelt Administration, Roosevelt's "Tree Army", Taos Pueblos, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, Works Progress Administration (WPA), WPA, Wyoming
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)
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
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
Indigenous Peoples of the Wolfsonian, Unite and Take Notice
• October 28, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, book art, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, Dennis Wiedman, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum, gender, George B. Post (firm), gifts, globalism, Historical Methods, History Department, India, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, David Rifkind, East Africa, Empire, Ethiopia, ethnocentrism, France's overseas empire, French Indochina, games, human zoos, India, indigenous peoples, Indo-Chine, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Native Americans, North Africa, Turkey
Around the World at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• September 20, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coolies, ethnohistory, Far East, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, labor, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, British Empire, China, Church Missionary Society, Coolies, FIU Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University faculty, Global & Sociocultural Studies, graduate students, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Nicolae Harsanyi, photograph albums, Professor Gail Hollander, Rochelle Pienn, Royal Artillery, unskilled manual laborers
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH WESTERN EYES: VISITS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY SOME COLOMBIAN SCHOLARS AND A GROUP OF YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS
• July 15, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Boers, colonial propaganda, colonialism, decorative arts, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistory, FIU, Folklorists, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, 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, ocean liners, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zulus
Tags: Art Deco posters, Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-?), Avram Glazer, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Block books, Boer Wars, carpets, Escuela de Diseno Grafico, Ethiopia, Frederic A. Sharf, Frijoles Canyon Pictoraphs, Great Northern Railway, Gustave Baumann, Hoke Denetsosie, Indian art, Indian culture, Indian dancers, indigenous art, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jill Glazer, John Collier, Jose Jairo Vargas, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), Luz Helena Ballestas Rincon, Maude Oakes, medicine man, Native American art, Native American culture, Navaho, Navaho rugs, Navaho War ceremonial, Navajo, Navajo Indian Reservation, New Deal, Pictographs, Plains Indians, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primers, sand paintings, Santa Fe (New Mexico), School of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, South African Wars, Symbols, Turkish periodicals, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
THE PEN AND THE SWORD: ORIGINAL NEWSWORTHY DRAWINGS FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• October 31, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in colonialism, donations, ethnohistory, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, C. H. P., Donkeys, Ethnographic studies, Huts, indigenous peoples, Landscape painting, Nairobi, Native dwellings, Ottoman Empire, Saylac, Scrapbooks, Seascapes, Sketchbooks, Somali warriors, Somalia, Somaliland, Terrorism, terrorists, The Graphic, The illustrated London News, Warsangali, Water-colors, Watercolor paintings, William L. Thomas, Zeila
THE YEAR OF THE RAT: THE JOURNAL OF JASPER WHITING–A RECENT GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, ethnohistory, Far East, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: American war correspondents, Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), China, ethnocentrism, Ethnohistorical sources, Ethnohistory, indigenous peoples, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, war correspondents, women
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
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