Archive for the 'international expositions' Category
COMMEMORATING ASSASSINATED U.S. PRESIDENTS: SOME IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, collectors, donations, gifts, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alexander Berkman, Alexander Doyle (1857-1922), American Bank Note Company of New York, Anarchists, assassinations, Canton (Ohio), Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), Charles Guiteau, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), commemorations, Electrical lighting, Emma Goldman, Ford’s Theater, George C. Domke, George Keller (1842-1935), Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), James Garfield (1831-1881), Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), Leon Czolgosz, Lincoln Village (Chicago world's fair 1933), log cabins, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), President John F. Kennedy, Presidential assassinations, Presidential inaugurations, replicas, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ruth Kruger, Sculptors, Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington D.C., The Wigwam (convention center), Tickets, U.S. presidents, William McKinley (1843-1901), Woodcuts, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago Ill), X-ray machines
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY HAPPY ANNIVERSARY SHOUT OUT TO THE TVA! To Vend at Auction?
• May 22, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Christopher DeNoon, collectors, displays, donations, FDR, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU students, Florida International University students, FTP, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Living Newspaper, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, theatre, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Christopher DeNoon, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Dams, Democrats, Electricity (bas relief), Elia Kazan (film director), ephemera, FDR, federal budgets, Federal Theatre Project, Francis Xavier Luca, FTP, George William Norris (1861-1944), Great Depression, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), hydro-electric dams, Library of Congress, Living Newspaper, Mitchel Wolfson Jr., National Progressive Republican League, National Public Radio, NPR, postcards, posters, Power (Federal Theatre production), President Barack Obama, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential candidates, private power utility companies, Progressive liberal Republicans, Progressive Party, public power utilities, REA, Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Republicans, Rural Electrification Act, Supreme Court, Tennessee River Valley, Tennessee Valley Authority, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), TVA, Wendell Willkie (1892-1944), Wild River (1960)
HOORAY FOR NORWAY! SOME WOLFSONIAN-FIU ITEMS TO CELEBRATE NASJONALDAGEN—NORWEGIANS’ “NATIONAL DAY”
• May 17, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, international expositions, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle WA), Aurora Borealis, B. & N. Line, Berg, Bergenske & Nordenfjeldske Steamship Company, Carl Hildebrand, cod liver oil, Constitution of Norway (1814), cruise line industry, Daughters of the Northern Lights (textile), Exposition universelle de 1900 (Paris), Gerhard Peter Frantz Wilhelm Munthe (1849-1929), German-occupied Norway, International exhibitions, Joseph Auslander (1897-1965), M.S. Bergensfjord, Modern furniture design, Nasjonaldagen, National Day (Norway), New York World's Fair (1939-1940), Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum Tapestry Studio, Norsemen, Northern lights, Norway, Norwegian America Line, Norwegian artists, Norwegian flag, Norwegian-Americans, Norwegians, ocean liners, romantic nationalism, Stevan Dohanos (1907-1994), Vikings, Wolfsonian Public Programs Manager, World’s Fairs
FAREWELL TO OUR WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY INTERN AND A GLIMPSE AT HER WORK ON WORLD’S FAIR INDIANS
• December 6, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, colonial propaganda, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, History Department, international expositions, Midways, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: "primitive" peoples, American Indians, amusements, assimilation, Buffalo Bill's WIld West Show, California Midwinter International Exposition (1894 : San Francisco), Chicago 1893, Chief Simon Pokagon, Civilized, Eskimos, ethnocentrism, ethnographic exhibits, human zoos, Indians, Indians of North America, indigenous peoples, Iroquois, Jennifer Toyos, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), metadata, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco), pavilions, Red Man's Greeting, Robert Rydell, Savage, savages, scalping, teepees, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World's Fairs
RESIDENT FELLOW ELIZABETH HEATH TALKS ABOUT FRENCH COLONIAL MATERIALS IN THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• July 6, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonial propaganda, colonialism, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, FIU, France, History Department, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: association, Colonies, Dr. Elizabeth Heath, Exposition Internationale Coloniale (1931 : Paris), Exposition nationale coloniale (1922 : Marseille), FIU History Department, Francis Xavier Luca, French colonies, French Indo-China, human zoos, Integration, native peoples, Wolfsonian fellows, World's Fairs
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY GIFTED BY MITCHELL WOLFSON, JR.
• June 21, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in acquisitions, American architects, American left artists, architects, architecture, book art, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, cruise ships, decorative arts, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, France, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, international expositions, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Occupied France, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Peter Behrens (1868-1940), political art, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Uncategorized, Unrealized architecture, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Arthur L. Weeks (architect), bears, catalogs, colonialism, Detroit International Bridge, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, furniture design, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Gallic roosters, George G. Sharp (naval architect), German artists, Hercules, Heywood-Wakefield Company, imperial eagles, International exhibitions, Kriegszeit, Manhattan Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, Mississippi River Power Company, nationalism, New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Over 2000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance, Panama Canal, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco 1915), Park Avenue Armory, Patriotism, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), poets, Republic of Turkey, sea lions, The Communist Manifesto in pictures, Trade shows, Vichy France, Wolfsonian Museum, wolves, World's Fairs
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 WHIRLWIND OF VISITORS AND DISPLAYS OF EUROPEAN LIBRARY MATERIALS
• January 27, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in bindings, book art, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, colonial propaganda, colonialism, cruise ships, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, Modesto Maidique campus, Occupied France, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Silvia Barisione, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Tori Arpad, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, World's fairs, WWII
Tags: Art installation students, Art Nouveau, Clara Palacio-de Luca, collaborators, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Fascism, Francis Luca, French language students, French occupation, Indonesia, Italian colonies, Italy, Java, pochoirs, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Tori Arpad-Cotta, Steve Heller, Vichy France
A “BEHIND THE SCENES” LOOK AT THE NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR
• September 11, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, library donors, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition, Aquacade, Billy Rose, California Pacific International Exposition, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Francis Xavier Luca, Futurama, graphic statistics, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition, Grover Whalen, Hall of Medicine Building, Harvey Gibson, Hildreth Meiere (1892-1961), James Mauro, NYWF (1939-1940), Robert Moses, Statistically Speaking, Texas Centennial Exposition, The New York World's Fair (1939-40), Twilight at the world of tomorrow, Wolfsonian Book Club, World's Fairs
ALL THE WORLD’S A FAIR!
• January 13, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, FIU, History Department, international expositions, Lara Kriegel, Midways, Orientalism, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: Florida International University faculty, International exhibitions
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