Archive for the 'photography' Category
A History of Hurricanes
• September 20, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, FDR, Federal Writers' Project, Francis Xavier Luca, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., photography, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: climate change, documentary photographers, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Global warming, Great Miami Hurricane (1926), Hurricane Gert, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, hurricane season, Hurricanes, natural disasters, Sea level rise, Superstorm Sandy, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
A Wolfsonian Happy Birthday Tribute to Yellowstone National Park
• March 1, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in Artists, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, photography, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1871 Yellowstone expedition, Charles Marshall Jr., color lithographic prints, Colter's Hell, Detroit Photographic Company, domestic tourism, Francis Xavier Luca, fur trappers, geysers, Howard Gottlieb, John Colter, mountain men, National Parks, Native Americans, Photochroms, President Ulysses S. Grant, Railroads, souvenir folders, souvenir viewbooks, The Yellowstone Act of 1872, Thomas Moran, tourism, travel, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), Yellowstone National Park
Introducing A Very Wolfsonian Excursion to Havana
• January 27, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in architecture, conservators, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, library donors, museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Amelia Pelaez, Casino de Capri (Havana), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cubaocho Museum and Performing Arts Center, Enrique Riveron, Ernesto Lecuona, Francis Xavier Luca, Habana Hilton, Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Hotel Plaza (Havana), Jill Otto, Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Little Havana, Louise Levin, Mary Tyler Moore (1936–2017), Perez Pradp, Prelude to a Night in Havana, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Roberto Ramos, Rosa Lowinger, Social (magazine), tours, travel, trips, Yeney Ramos
Reflections on the Passing of Fidel Castro and the U.S.-Cuba Relationship by Wolfsonian–FIU Chief Librarian Francis Luca
• December 1, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, acquisitions, bars, Communism, Cuba, dance, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, hotels, library donors, museums, persuasive arts, photography, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1950s, 25th of July Movement, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Afro-Cuban jazz, American celebrities, American tourists in Cuba, Bar La Florida (Havana), Bay of Pigs invasion, Cabarets, Casino de Capri, Casinos, cha cha cha, Chano Pozo, Che! (film : 1969), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Coca-cola, Cocktail Time in Cuba, Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuba (film : 1979), Cuban exiles, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban musicians, Cuban Rebel Girls (film : 1959), dictators, Dizzy Gillespie, Ed Sullivan, Errol Flynn, Escape from Hell Island (film : 1964), Ferries, Fidel Castro, Francis Xavier Luca, Fulgencio Batista, Gran Casino Nacional de Habana, Granma, Guys and Dolls (film : 1955), Habana Libre (hotel), Havana (Cuba), Havana Hilton, Havana Widows (film : 1933), honeymooners, Jose Marti, Key West (Florida), La Bodeguita del Medio (restaurant : Havana), Liberace, mambo, Moncada barracks (Santiago de Cuba), Nightclubs, Pier Five Havana (film : 1959), President Obama, Prohibition, promised gifts, Raul Castro, Rita Hayworth, roulette, rum, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), showgirls, Sloppy Joe's Bar (Havana), strippers, striptease, Tampa (Florida), tourists, Tropicana (Nightclub), United States, Vicki Gold Levi, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, We Shall Return (film : 1963), Wolfsonian Chief Librarian, Woolworths department store, Ybor City (Florida)
A Wolfsonian Commemoration of the opening of the Suez Canal on this date, 1869
• November 17, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, 1930s, airplanes, Balochistan, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Middle East, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Photograph albums, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, War Photography, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Abu-Sueir (airforce base), Alexandria (Egypt), ANZAC, Australian soldiers, British Empire, British occupation of Egypt, Canals, cruisers, Egypt, Ferdinand de Lesseps, First World War (1914-1918), Great Britain, H.M.S. Hampshire, Himilayah (auxilary cruiser), New Zealand soldiers, Port Said (Egypt), RAF, Royal Air Force, Suez Canal, warships, WWI
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
