Cuba Mania Month
• October 1, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acquisitions, Artists, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, memorabilia, museums, photography, programs, prohibition, The Wolfsonian Library, Vicki Gold Levi, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: "Mr. Babalú", 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1919, A Century of Progress International Exposition, Affair in Havana (film : 1957), Another Thin Man (film: 1939), Art Deco, Art Loft (Public Television), Arthur Murray Dance Studios, bars, bodeguitas, Books & Books (Coral Gables), Caricaturas (Wolfsonian Library installation), caricaturists, Carol Lombard, Celia Cruz, cha cha cha, Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (film: 1956), Conrado W. Massaguer, Cuba, Cuban Caricature and Culture: The Art of Massaguer (Wolfsonian installation), Cuban Rebel Girls (film), dance, Delphic Studios (NYC), Desi Arnaz, Dick Powell, documentaries, El Figaro (magazine), El Manisero (song), Emilio Cueto, ephemera, Errol Flynn, Errol Flynn's Ghost (documentary), exploitation films, Fidel Castro, fox trot, Fred F. Sears, Fulgencio Batista, Gaspar Gonzalez, George Raft, Gerardo Machado, Gran Casino Nacional (Havana), Havana (Cuba), Havana Widows (film : 1933), Holiday in Havana (film), Hollywood actors, Joan Blondell, La Florida (bar), Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Velez, mambo, Mambo Italiano (song), Margo, Mary Hatcher, MGM, Miami's Vinyl Social Club, Miguelito Valdés, Moonlight in Havana (film), mulatas, music, O Cinema, Pan-Americana (film), Papa Loves Mambo (song), Perez Prado, Perry Como, record jackets, record players, Rene and Estela (dancers), rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, Rosemary Clooney, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), rumbera, Sheet music covers, Sloppy Joe's Bar, son pregon, Sound recordings, The Big Boodle (film), The Cuban Love Song (film: 1931), The Peanut Vendor (song), The Wolf on Wax, tourism, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Week-End in Havana (film: 1941), Xavier Cugat
Clear the Tables! French, Cuban, Native American, and Bakehouse Appetizers
• May 22, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, Art Deco, book art, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, Cuba, curators, decorative arts, displays, donations, Dutch Art Nouveau, FDR, Federal One, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, forestry, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, health, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), Afrique Equatoriale, Afro-Cuban jazz, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Art Deco facades, baked goods, Bakehouse Art Complex, bars, Batik, Borden, Brochures, Casinos, CCC camps, cha cha cha, Chemins de fer, Chris Horn, Christopher DeNoon, Cinemas, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conrado W. Massaguer, cows, Crypt Cracking, Dahomey, Emily Barber, ephemera, ethnicity, Everglades National Park, Exposition coloniale internationale, Folies Bergere, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fredolin Kessler, French cinema, French colonies, French Empire, French language students, French literature, French Soudan, French Tunisie, game boards, Getty Council Members, Glacier National Park, Grand Canyon, Havana (Cuba), Havana American Jockey Club, Havana Widows (film : 1933), Heather Cook, Hotels, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Kellogg Company, Louis Miano, mambo, Maria Antonette Garcia, Maria Antonieta Garcia, Michigan Art and Craft Project (Detroit), mimeographs, Montmartre (nightclub : Havana), Nathaniel Sandler, National Parks, Native Americans, Navajo Indians, North Pacific Coast Indians, Osceola, photographs, portraits, postcards, Prohibition, race, Railroads, rare periodicals, recipe books, record jackets, rhumba, Rosa Lowinger, rumba, Rumba (film : 1935), San Souci (nightclub : Havana), Seminole Indians, Sewing machines, silk screen, Sloppy Joe's, Sound recordings, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, theater, tobacco advertising, Trains, Tropicana (nightclub : Havana), U.S. Forest Service, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, VIP visitors, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Work Projects Administration, WPA
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