Archive for the 'War Photography' Category
First Among Photographers, Margaret Bourke-White
• June 14, 2021 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Communism, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, Great Depression, leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal era, photography, racism, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), skyscrapers, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, War Photography, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII, youth movements
Tags: "Men and Machines" (exhibition : NY : 1930), Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Americanization, Americanization classes, Anti-Religious Museum (Moscow), Breadlines, Buchenwald (concentration camp), Central Europe, Chain gangs, Cold War, Czechoslovakia, Dams, Dear Fatherland Rest Quietly (book : 1945), drought, Dust Bowl, dust storms, Erskine Caldwell, Eyes on Russia (book : 1931), factories, Farm Security Administration photographs, FDR, Female steel workers, Five Year Plan, floods, Fort Peck Dam, Fortune (magazine), gargoyles, Great Depression, Gypsies, Harry Hopkins (1890-1946), heads of state, Henry Luce, Hitler Youth, Hitler-Stalin Pact, House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Hungary, industrial workers, industry, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Korean War, Kremlin, Liebensraum, Life (magazine), Lifeboat (film : 1944), lifeboats, machines, Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), McCarthyism, Moravia, Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, North of the Danube (book : 1939), Nursing, One Thing Leads to Another: The Growth of an Industry (book : 1936), Photographers, Popular Front, racism, Red Scare, Rockefeller Centre, Roosevelt Administration, rural poverty, Russia at War (book : 1942), Russian front, Say Is This the U.S.A. (book : 1941), schools, segregation, shacks, Sharecroppers, Slovakia, soil erosion, solvents, South, Soviet Union, Statue of Liberty, steel workers, Tenant farmers, They Called It "Purple Heart Valley" (book : 1944), War photography, welders, workers, You Have Seen Their Faces (book : 1937)
A Flurry of Wolfsonian Library Installations and Displays
• May 2, 2019 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, archives, Art Deco, Artists, Bernarr Macfadden, book art, collectors, displays, donations, erotic art, exhibit cases, Fascism, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Green Library, History Department, hotels, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, persuasive arts, Philippines, photography, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, pochoirs, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, student curators, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler caricatures, aids, AIGA Miami, Alert (magazine), Althea (Vicki) Silvera, Aristotle [Chakiris] Ares USS Yorktown Collection, Art Deco hotels, Art Deco motifs, Arthur Zaidenberg, barracks, Battle of Midway, Benito Mussolini caricatures, Bologna (Italy), butterflies, Chief librarian, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, condoms, correspondence, deviant sexual behavior, Dick Lesseraux, digital collections curator, Dolores S. Lesseraux, Dolores Trenner, Erin Heffron, erotica, Federal Arts Project, Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Gender roles, gonorrhea, Green Library, Historical Design, hiv, HIV/Aids awareness posters, Homosexuality, humor, Insects, installations, Japanese destroyers, Judith Berson-Levinson, lesbianism, madonna, Manila (Philippines), Mel Victor WWII Pacific Theater Collection, menus, Miami (Florida), Miami Air Depot, Miami Beach (Florida), Naval battles, Pacific Theater, Pamphlets, Physical Culture (magazine), pochoirs, portfolio plates, postcards, Posterfest, Posterfest: Design for Good 2019, proofs, prostitution, public health, pulp paperbacks, rationing, Rosie the Riveter, Sand in their Boots archive, Seguy, sex, sex advice, sexual behavior, syphilis, Terrence G. Peterson, Tojo caricatures, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Uniforms, USS Lexington (aircraft carrier), USS Yorktown (aircraft carrier), venereal disease, Victory, Victory Gold Levi Collection, warships, Women war workers, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Yucef Merhi
War and Remembrance
• October 30, 2018 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Austria, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: A. G. Santagata, Anzac Memorial, Art Deco, bas relief, Bonus Expeditionary Force, C. R. W. Nevinson, Combat Hippies, Dialogues on the Experience of War, Egeo Venturi, FIU, Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, George Grosz (1893-1959), Irving Marantz, Jean Carlu, Jessica L. Adler, Kathe Ko, Kathe Kollwitz, La Dette (the debt), lobbying, Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), murals, NAH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Otto Beyer, Paintings, Periodicals, portfolios, PTSD, recruiting posters, sculpture, Shell-shock, Soldiers, trenches, veterans, Vorticism, war, War and Healing, war artists, War memorials, war monuments, War photography, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), World War I, Zoe Welch
Fair Thee Well
• December 14, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 3rd Afghan War, Afghanistan, airplanes, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, donations, Egypt, Far East, Felice Beato, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army. Kent Regiment., Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kusakabe Kimbei, library donors, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, Photograph albums, photography, POWs, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Royal Airforce, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Afghanistan, Art Basel, Balochistan, Baron Raimund von Stillfried, biplanes, British Empire, Egypt, Egyptians, Far East, Felice Beato, Frederic A. Sharf, Great Britain, hand-watercolored photographs, India, Indian Cavalry (Lancers), indigenous peoples, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kent Regiment (British Army), Kusakabe Kimbei, leather bindings, Lieutenant J. D. Harding, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pashtuns, photograph albums, Photography, Royal Air Force (Great Britain), women, Yokohama (Japan)
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
The Subtle Beast, or, Views of Pakistan Past from the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• August 10, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Afghanistan, British Army, colonialism, Earthquakes, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Pakistan, Photograph albums, photography, Quetta, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1935 Quetta earthquake, Afghanistan, British 1st Indian Division Signals, HBO's The Night Of, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Mohmand Operations, Pakistan, Peshawar Brigade, photograph albums, Quetta (Pakistan), Rochelle Pienn, suicide bombings, T. Fuller, Terrorism, terrorists, tribal wars
From the United States, to the Philippines, to Tokyo, to Cuba: BAA & NEH Scholars Visit The Wolfsonian–FIU
• June 18, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, Alabama, American left artists, architecture, Artists, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curator, displays, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, graphic arts, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, leftist artists, library donors, museums, Philippine American War, Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, Photograph albums, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African-Americans, Al Jolson, Anti-communism, Art Deco, Bavarian American Academy, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie, block print books, death penalty, Dr. Amy Bliss Marshall, Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, Dr. Steven Heine, electric chair, Felix Lewis, Francis Xavier Luca, Hap Hadley, Japan, Josephine Baker, Koizumi Kishio (1893-1945), Lidu Yi, lino-cut books, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Nicolae Harsanyi, Philippines, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Quit Cryin' the Blues, racism, Remembering Tokyo (exhibit), Rochelle Pienn, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, summer institutes, summer programs, Tokyo: High City and Low City, United States
War and Remembrance: Afghanistan Album at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• April 19, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Afghan Defense Ministry, Afghanistan, Balochis, Balochistan, colonialism, Great Britain, Great Britain. Army. Kent Regiment., India, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jirgas, Lieutenant J. D. Harding, Middle East, Northwest Frontier, Pakistan, Pathans, Photograph albums, POWs, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Third Afghan War, War Photography
Out With the Old, In With the New: FDR’s Inauguration and a New Wolfsonian Library Installation
• March 4, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, colonial propaganda, colonialism, curators, donations, exhibitions, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Maine (Battleship, New Deal era, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Spanish-American War, student curators, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Cuba, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Good Neighbor Policy, Gunboat diplomacy, Havana harbor, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Remember the Maine!, Rough Riders, Sheet music covers, Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S.S. Maine
THE “GREAT WAR” AND ITS SEQUEL: WWI WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT TO CLOSE, WWII EXHIBIT TO OPEN
• March 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Veterans Day, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: alphabet books, American eagle, Army barracks, At Ease: Miami Beach During the Second World War (Wolfsonian library exhibit), atlases, bathing beaches, beaches, Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), caricatures, coloring books, Cossacks, Dachshunds, dogs, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, Exhibition openings, games, geese, Geishas, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Hotels, Humpty Dumpty, John Bull, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, liberty cabbage, Liberty Loans, marching, Marianne, Miami Beach Centennial, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, military drill, military exercises, military parade, Mother Goose, Natalie Vera, nursery rhyme books, Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times, Pamphlets, parodies, pickelhaube helmets, postcards, Puzzles, Sand in their Boots (event), satires, sauerkraut, servicemen, sheet music, souvenir view books, Stephen Castellanos, syllabification books, The Children's Crusade (Wolfsonian library exhibit), the Great War, Todd Jolly, tourists, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Veterans Day
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