THE DECO DECADES: THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT
• June 17, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, architects, architecture, bars, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Historic Art Deco District (Miami Beach Fla.), hotels, Lawrence Wiggins III, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., restaurants, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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NOSTALGIA FOR CUBA: THE VICKI GOLD LEVI COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• May 21, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Cuba, curator, postcards, posters, Tobacco, Vicki Gold Levi
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PRIVATE DICKS, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, AND FEMME FATALES: PULP COVER ART AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• January 8, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, cataloging, collectors, donations, erotic art, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Physical culture, Physical Culture movement, rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
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