Archive for the 'fashion for women' Category
Honoring Women and Heckling Hitler
• March 27, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1940s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, curator, Disney, displays, donations, Fascism, fashion for women, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italy, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pacific campaign (WWII), Pamela K. Harer, persuasive arts, Philippines, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Alexander Z. Kruse, archives, Aristotle Ares, Army Air Forces (U.S.), Aryans, Axis, B-26, boot straps, Broadsides, calendars, Charles L. McCartney Jr., Crypt Cracking, Dolores Trenner, Donna Victor, Envelopes, Espanolaphone, First aid, FIU Professor Terrance G. Peterson, Home front, Hotzi Notzi, Into the Stacks, jeeps, Jeffrey G. Fischer, joeys, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Kaiser Wilhelm II, kangaroos, Keep 'em Flying (magazine), Maps, March, Martijn F. Lecoultre, matchcovers, Max Halverson (1924-2006), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, Michael Smith, Nathaniel Sandler, Nurses, Pamela K. Harer, Pamphlets, pincushions, postcards, Republic of Salo, rolling pins, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots (event), schoolgirls, sewing needles, Sheet music covers, Shoshana Resnikoff, skirts, Spanish Civl War (1936-1939), Thomas Barrett Archive, U.S. navy, Uniforms, USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), Victory Gold Levi Collection, WAACS, WACS, wigs, Wolfsonian public programs, women in the Armed Services, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Women's History Month
From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martí MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
BEAUTY AND THE BEACH: WOMEN’S BATHING SUITS AND THE PROMOTION OF MIAMI BEACH
• May 6, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, donations, fashion, fashion for women, gender, Great Depression, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Norman Bel Geddes, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), swimwear, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1920s, Annette Kellerman, Army Air Forces, bathing attire, bathing beaches, Bathing suits, bathinghouses, beaches, Beauty pageants, Bettie Page, bikinis, Brigitte Bardot (actress), Brochures, Bunny Yeager, Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Casinos, City of Miami Beach News Bureau, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Copa City Nightclub (Miami Beach Fla.), Diane Varga, Dolores Kirby, Donna Victor, Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Francis Xavier Luca, greyhounds, Hardie Casino, Jane Fisher, Lanita Kent, Lawrence Wiggins, Louis Reard, Mel Victor, Miami Beach, Miami Beach (Fla.), Miami Beach City Hall, Miami Beach fiftieth anniversary celebrations, Miami Beach Historical Archive, Miami Beach Kennel Club, Miss Miami Beach Golden Girl Pageant, Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, Norma Eve Sherer, Norman Bel Geddes, postcards, promotional literature, Roney Plaza Hotel, Second World War (1939-1945), Shelly Macy Sharpe, Smith's Casino, Sun-Ray Sanitarium (Miami Fla.), Swimsuits, Thermometers, winter resorts, women, WWII
WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: SOME ARTIFACTS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 3, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, American war propaganda, Children's propaganda books, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: "jumping jack" (paper puppets), "pin-up" art, AEF (American Expeditionary Force), African-American soldiers, American military uniforms, anti-interventionist propaganda, anti-war propaganda, Broadsides, castration anxiety, Celia Malone Kingsbury’s For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, coach drivers, Doughboys, emasculation fears, femininity, feminists, French women, gender issues, Gender roles, La Tradotta, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Lusitania (Steamship), magazine cover art, manliness, mothers and sons, mothers of soldiers, munitions factories, Musical scores, Myth and Machine: The First World War in Visual Culture (Wolfsonian exhibition), Navy recruitment, Neutrality, nurses and nursing, pacifism, porters, portfolios, postmen, President Woodrow Wilson, R.M.S. Lusitania, recruiting posters, Red Cross nurses, romance, Sailor suits, Service flags, Sheet music covers, shell factories, street sweepers, Sweethearts, The Delineator (magazine), the Great War (1914-1918), Thomas C. Ragan, trolley conductors, U-Boat attacks, Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), War & Society: The First World War (FIU History class), War brides, war work, Wilson's "Too proud to fight" speech (May 1915), Woman's Suffrage Movement, women, women and children, women barbers, women's war work, World War (1914-1918)
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1914, Acerba, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Alastair (1887-1969), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969), Belle Epoque, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), caricatures, Carmen, cartoons, Central Europe, Devrin D. Weiss, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Franz joseph I, Futurism, Futurist poetry, Georges Goursat (1863-1934), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Insects, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Bull, Kriegs-album der Lustige Blätter (periodicals), Krupp, L'Eroica (periodical), Lacerba (Futurist manifesto), Le Mot (periodical), Le Vrai & le faux chic, Lobsters, Mela Koehler (1885-1960), Omega Workshops, Panama Canal, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), propaganda, Raul Rodriguez, Rebel Art Centre, Satire, Sem (1863-1934), Sharf Associate Librarian, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, silk advertisements, Social satire, Symbolist poetry, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vorticism, Vorticists, war cartoons, Wien, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), women's fashion, World War (1914-1918), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Zang Tumb Tuuum, Zira Cigarettes
A TRIP BACK IN TIME TO THE GILDED AGE AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 5, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, displays, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World's fairs
Tags: "white city", 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900, 3-D, A Bird in a Gilded Cage (song), Advertising cards, Arthur J. Lamb (1870-1928), B. T. Babbitt Soap Powder, California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco), Centennial International Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia), Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900), Chief Simon Pokagon, Children in advertising, Columbia's Courtship, commercial advertising, commercial art, Diamond Dyes, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, Eiffel Tower, Exhibition buildings, Expositions, Francis Xavier Luca, George B. Post (architectural firm), George Washington Gale Ferris, Gilded Age, Heinz, Heinz Ocean Pier (Atlantic City NJ), Henry Von Tilzer (1872-1946), International exhibitions, Jr. (1859–1896), Kate Greenaway Collection, Kate Greenaway Collection (Wolfsonian-FIU library), Krupp, Machinery Hall, Mad Men, Manufacturers and Liberal Arts building, Mark Twain (1835-1910), Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., North American Indians in art, Orientalism, pavilions, Penobscot Indians, Red Man's Greeting, Singer sewing machines, Soap boxes, Statues, stereographs, The Gilded Age (1873), VIP visitors, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Walter Crane (1845-1915), World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World’s Fairs
WOMEN, PHYSICAL CULTURE, AND THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 10, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, Artists, Aryans, Bernarr Macfadden, Bill Bradley, Communism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, fashion for women, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, physical fitness, political art, portfolios, postcards, programs, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, reception, Robert J. Young, Russia, swimwear, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: Annuario Sportivo Generale della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio, Art Nouveau (art), Bathing suits, Berlin Olympic Games (1936), Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Bill Bradley (1868-1962), body builders, Broadsides, Cosulich, Gino Boccasile (1901-1952), gymnasiums, Julius Klinger (1876-1942), Leni” Riefenstahl (1902-2003), Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949), Mechanical horses, Monarch of Bermuda (steamship), Navigazione Generale Italiana, Nazi Olympics, Nudist movement, Physical Culture (magazine), Popular magazines, rare periodicals, sports, Stadiums, sunbathing, Sunshine and Health (magazine), Victorian attire, Wolfsonian public events, Wolfsonian public programs, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
