Archive for the 'ocean liners' Category
Visit by Mandela Washington Fellows
• July 8, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Boers, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, South African War, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women, Zulus
Tags: Abissinia, Africa, Africa Oriental, Africans, Angola, Aurelio Bertiglia, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Brochures, Charles Montague Elliott Wilson, Colonial expositions, Congo, Deutsch Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, East Africa, Equatorial Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European colonies in Africa, Gabon, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Mandela Washington Fellowship, Maps, Mocambique, Musee des Colonies (Paris), native peoples, Niger, photograph albums, Portuguese empire, Sierra Leone, Sketchbooks, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Steve Heller, sub-Saharan Africa, Union Castle Line, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zanzibar, Zulus
Unhappy Anniversary: The Sinking of the Unsinkable Titanic
• April 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, library donors, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1912, Disasters at sea, Icebergs, lifeboats, Margin of Error (Wolfsonian exhibition), ocean liners, paperbacks, passenger ships, polar bears, R.M.S. Titanic, sinkings, White Star Line
All Aboard! Recent Visit to The Wolfsonian by the SSHSA Board Members
• February 1, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in Art Deco, cataloging, collectors, cruise ships, Cunard Line, decorative arts, displays, donations, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: Ada Peacock, Black Sea Steamship Company, Bremen (Steamship), Brochures, Canadian Pacific Line, Carnival Cruise Line, Colonial tourism, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, Conte Grande (steamship), Crystal Garcia, Cunard Line, deck plans, Dunnottar Castle (steamship), Europa, Felix Roussel (steamship), Franconia (steamship), Fred Sharf, French Line, Good Neighbor Fleet, Great Lakes, H.M.S. Imperieuse, H.M.S. Sultan, H.M.S. Superb, Ile de France (steamship), Incres Line, Jean Dunand, John Henry, Laurence Miller, Liberte (steamship), logbooks, M.S. Victoria (steamship), menus, Messageries Maritimes, Moore-McCormack Lines, Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), Normandie (Steamship), ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, Pacific Line, Promotional materials, R.M.S. Alcantara (steamship), R.M.S. Edinburgh Castle, R.M.S. Pretoria Castle (steamship), Red Star Line, Reina del Pacifico (steamship), Round the World cruises, Royal Mail Lines, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.A. Oranje (steamship), S.S. Argentina (steamhsip), Safmarine, SSHSA, St. Lawrence River Valley, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Thomas Ragan, travel, Tropicale (cruiseship), Union Castle Line
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
The Scuttlebutt about a Scuttled Ship: Visit by Colombian-born Author to the Wolfsonian Library
• September 24, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in First World War (1914-1918), Frederic A. Sharf, ocean liners, passenger ships, World War I, WWI
Tags: Alvaro Mendoza Arango, art deco interiors, Barranquilla (Colombia), Colombia, De la Gloria al Olvido (book), deck plans, Dr. Laurence Miller, Enrique Yidi Daccarett, Francis Xavier Luca, Hamburg-American Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, interior decoration of ships, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, library visitors, Monarch of Bermuda (steamship), Prinz August Wilhelm (Steamship), Puerto Colombia, river steamers, scuttled ships, steamships, T.S. Ariadne (ship), USS Shipping Board
Sailing (or Avoiding) The Exile’s Line to India
• January 28, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, cataloging, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, Florida International University, gifts, India, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "The Exiles' Line" / by Rudyard Kipling, Felix Roussell (ship), French Indo-China, Gustavo Pulitzer Finali, Indian Summers (Masterpiece Theatre), Indo-China, Lloyd Triestino, Messageries Maritimes, Orcades (ship), Orient Line, Passage to India / by E. M. Forster, Victoria (ship), Willem Ruys (ship)
“Every Thursday at 4 p.m….”: Wolfsonian reminiscences of the Union Castle Line
• November 4, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in ocean liners, oceanliners, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Dr. Laurence Miller, Laurence Miller Collection, South Africa, Union Castle Line
