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)
Nostalgia for Cuba: an exhibition, an installation, school visits, a fair, vintage automobiles, a film-noir thriller, and more…
• May 31, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, cars, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, curator, curators, displays, donations, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, interns, Joe Louis, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
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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
Tags: 1940s, 1950s, adultery, Avon pocket-sized books, Avon Publishing Company, “true crime” stories, Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955), Best Western (magazine), Black Bat, Black Book Detective (magazine), Black Legion, Boardwalk Empire, Bride From Broadway (book), Broadway Virgin (book), BUtterfield 8 (book), caricatures, Censorship, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, damsels in distress, Dead As A Dinosaur (book), detectives, Edward G. Robinson (1893-1973), fallen women, Famous Fantastic Mysteries (magazine), femme fatales, Film noir, Flynn's Detective Fiction (magazine), Francis Xavier Luca, G-Men Detective, gangsters, Georgie May (book), glossies, Greatest Detective Cases (magazine), heroes, Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957), Ideal Love (magazine), James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), Leading Detective (magazine), Liberty (magazine), magazine cover art, magazine illustrators, Master Detective (magazine), Motion Picture Production Codes (Hays Codes), Movie trailers, murder, murder mysteries, Nazis, New Masses (magazine), Periodicals, Physical Culture (magazine), Physical Culture Movement, Popular Detective (magazine), pornography, prostitution, publishers, publishing moguls, pulp fiction, Pulp Fiction (film: 1994), pulp magazines, Pulps, Quentin Tarantino (film director), Robert J. Young (1928-2009), romance, See What I Mean? (book), serials, sex, slicks, spicy stories, Sunshine and Health (magazine), The Hucksters (book), Thrilling Detective (magazine), Trinity in Violence (book), Tropical Passions (book), True Confessions (magazine), True Detective (HBO series), True Detective (magazine), vice, Vicki Gold Levi, villains, Walter Popp, Wesley Snyder, Westerns
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