CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• February 28, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, African American History, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), African-American actors, African-American athletes, African-American law students, African-American singers, African-American valedictorians, African-Americans, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Blacks, Columbia Law School, Earl Schenck Miers (1910-1972), Fiction, Fictional biographies, Harriett Tubman (1820-1913), Negro History Bulletin, Novels, Racial prejudice, Rutgers University, Vance Locke (illustrator), Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
COMMEMORATING ASSASSINATED U.S. PRESIDENTS: SOME IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, collectors, donations, gifts, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alexander Berkman, Alexander Doyle (1857-1922), American Bank Note Company of New York, Anarchists, assassinations, Canton (Ohio), Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), Charles Guiteau, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), commemorations, Electrical lighting, Emma Goldman, Ford’s Theater, George C. Domke, George Keller (1842-1935), Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), James Garfield (1831-1881), Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), Leon Czolgosz, Lincoln Village (Chicago world's fair 1933), log cabins, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), President John F. Kennedy, Presidential assassinations, Presidential inaugurations, replicas, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ruth Kruger, Sculptors, Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington D.C., The Wigwam (convention center), Tickets, U.S. presidents, William McKinley (1843-1901), Woodcuts, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago Ill), X-ray machines
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