Archive for the 'passenger ships' Category
Canal Inaugural
• August 15, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, France, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1914, Albert Edward, albumen prints, Ancon (steamship), August 15 1914, Canals, Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique, dredges, Five Years at Panama, Maps, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama: the canal the country and the people, photograph albums, telegrams, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Wolfred Nelson
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
Timing is Everything, or, Rare Panama Canal Views at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• June 22, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Isthmus of Panama, Joseph Pennell, malaria, Mosquitos, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Panama Canal, Panama Railroad, Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), William Gorgas, yellow fever
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)
PERMISSION TO COME ABOARD?: THE BOAT SHOW, AND WAVES OF VIP VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 21, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: "Mr. Ocean Liner" (Bill Miller), American Caribbean Line, Andrea Doria (ship), Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993), baggage labels, C. Colombo (ship), Commodore Ron Warwick, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Cunard Line, Cunard White Star Line, Dazzle Painting, deck plans, Disasters at sea, dockworkers, Dr. Laurence Miller, Empress of Australia (Ship), Empress of France (Ship), First class accommodations, Gdynia America Line, Good Neighbor Fleet, Home Lines, Italian Line, M.S. Stockholm (passenger ship), Maritime strike (1936-1937), Mauretania (passenger ship), menus, Miami International Boat Show, Moore-McCormack Lines, Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), ocean liners, promotional brochures, Queen Elizabeth 2 (passenger ship), Queen Mary 2 (passenger ship), R.M.S. Carinthia (Steamship), R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (steamship), R.M.S. Queen Mary (steamship), Roman Holiday (film : 1953), ship building, shipwrecks, slow-downs, Sobieski (ship), strikes, Sylvania (passenger ship), Thomas C. Ragan Collection
RAZZLE DAZZLE, ART BASEL: A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT ON THE “GREAT WAR” AND THE DECORATION OF THE MUSEUM’S FAÇADE
• November 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, American war propaganda, Armistice Day, children's books, Children's propaganda books, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, History Department, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, Pamela K. Harer, passenger ships, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Veterans Day, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: airplanes, Art Basel, artists, biplanes, Camouflage, Dazzle Painting, facades, Intricate Pattern Overlay, Michelle Weinberg, Painting, Professor Francis Luca, R.M.S. Lusitania, ships, submarine warfare, the Great War, U-Boat attacks, U-Boats, unrestricted submarine warfare, war artists, warships, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
