Italian Ethiopia at The Wolfsonian Library
• August 6, 2019 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Ethiopia, Fascism, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gender, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, political art, portfolios, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abissinia, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Akbaba (magazine), anthropology, anti-imperialism, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Ascari troops, atrocities, Aurelio Bertiglia, Autarky, Battle of Adwa, Benito Mussolini, Black Venus, British Somaliland, calendars, caricatures, collecting cards, Compagnia Italiana Liebig (Milano), Daniel Morris, East Africa, Enrico Cerulli, Eritrea, fans, fasces, gallows, General Baratieri, Haile Selassie, Harry Gannes, Historical Design, History Revealed, Il Travaso delle Idee, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), James De Lorenzi, James W. Ford, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, League of Nations, Maps, March on Rome (1922), Marshal Graziani, Menelik II, military conquest, Ministero Africa Italiana, National Fascist Party (PNF), Nero, North African migrants, Orientalism, Orientalists, poison gas, postcards, Red Cross, road-building, school notebooks, sexual conquest, Sheet music covers, slavery, Tanks, Vulcania (steamship)
The Red Cross in Time of War
• August 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, Ethiopia, First aid, First World War (1914-1918), Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1864, Adolphus Solomons, ambulances, American Red Cross, atrocities, August 22, Broadsides, Clara Barton, Edith Cavell, emblems, ephemera, Frederic A. Sharf, Geneva convention, Hospitals, International Red Cross, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jean-Henri Dunant, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Ladysmith (South Africa), mechanical works, medical personnel, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Periodicals, photograph albums, postcards, posters, Red Cross, Red Cross dogs, Red Cross nurses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sheet music covers, South African War (1899-1902), Swiss flag, tents, Woodrow Wilson
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RMS LUSITANIA: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ONE HUNDRED YEARS (AND ONE DAY) LATER
• May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: atrocities, cartoons, civilian casualties, contraband, Cruiser Rules, Cunard, Dachshunds, devils, drowning, Elbert Hubbard, German sympathizers, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Ireland, Isador and Ida Straus, John Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Herod, Liverpool, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mauritania, Mexican intervention 1914, military preparedness, Miss Liberty, moustaches, Norddeutscher Lloyd, ocean liners, passengerships, peace at any price, pickelhaube helmets, pirates, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, Richard Preston Prichard, RMS Lusitania, Satan, scarecrows, Sealions, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, steamships, strawmen, strict neutrality, submarines, Thomas C. Ragan, torpedoes, U-20, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, white feathers, World War (1914-1918), WWI
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CIVIL WAR: PARALLEL PERPSECTIVES ON CONFLICT AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• September 15, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, Children's propaganda books, displays, Fascism, Great Britain, Holocaust, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Reds", al-Qaeda jihadists, atrocities, Bilbao (Spain), cartoons, Cathedrals, Catholic nuns, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Chemical warfare, Chemical weapons, civilian casualties, Convents, Crucifixion, gas attacks, Gas masks, German occupied territories, Islamic extremists, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Latakia (Syria), leaflets, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Maaloula (Syria), massacres, Miami Ad School, Monasteries, Nuns, P.O.W.s, Photos don't lie, President Bashar al_Assad of Syria, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Prison camps, Prisoners of war, Reims, religious wars, Republic of Salo, Sacred sites, Terror, terrorists, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), U-Boat attacks, War and religion, war prisoners, Wittenberg (Germany)
LEST WE FORGET: LIDICE
• June 11, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: atrocities, Ben Shahn (1898-1969), bronze sculptures, Chelmno concentration camp, commemorations, Czechoslovakia, German occupied territories, Ležáky, Lidice massacre (Czechoslovakia), Marie Uchytilová, memorials, Reinhard Heydrich, Stickers
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