France’s Overseas Empire on Display
• November 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Deco, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, Albert Laprade, Alfred Janniot, Anja Decker, Arthur Dupagne, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, Dahomey, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, France's overseas empire, Francophiles, French colonies, gender, human zoos, indigenous peoples, interracial couples, Jaussely, Madagascar, modernism, Musée Permanent des Colonies, native peoples, North Africa, nudes, Palais de la Porte Doree, pavilions, Petit Journal, postcards, posters, primitivism, sculpture, Senegal, Strange Couple (painting : 1934)
War and Remembrance
• October 30, 2018 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1920s, 1930s, American war propaganda, Austria, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), FIU, FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, Great Britain, Great Depression, Harald Engman, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian Education Department, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: A. G. Santagata, Anzac Memorial, Art Deco, bas relief, Bonus Expeditionary Force, C. R. W. Nevinson, Combat Hippies, Dialogues on the Experience of War, Egeo Venturi, FIU, Florida State University Institute for World War II and the Human Experience, George Grosz (1893-1959), Irving Marantz, Jean Carlu, Jessica L. Adler, Kathe Ko, Kathe Kollwitz, La Dette (the debt), lobbying, Miami Vet Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), murals, NAH, National Endowment for the Humanities, Otto Beyer, Paintings, Periodicals, portfolios, PTSD, recruiting posters, sculpture, Shell-shock, Soldiers, trenches, veterans, Vorticism, war, War and Healing, war artists, War memorials, war monuments, War photography, Wit as Weapon: Satire and the Great War (Wolfsonian library installation), World War I, Zoe Welch
A Transatlantic Voyage to the “Ocean State”
• April 18, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, archives, Art Deco, collectors, cruise ships, curators, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives, archivists, art deco interiors, bas relief, British Movietone, British Pathe, Cie. Cle. Transatlantique, Clarmont (steamboat), collectors, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, conservators, curators, Don Leavitt, Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation, French Line, fundrasiers, Grace Line, Hudson-Fulton Centennial Celebration, Jean Dunand, La Chasse [The Hunt], librarians, maiden voyages, Matthew Schulte, medalions, model ships, newsreels, Normandie (Steamship), North River Steamboat, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, posters, powerships, Providence (Rhode Island), radio personalities, Robert Fulton, Ship History Center, SS Normandie, SSHSA, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Stephen Lash, Steve Donovan, Thomas C. Ragan, Warwick (Rhode Island)
Cruising the French Caribbean aboard the S.S. Wolfsonian
• March 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, collectors, colonial tourism, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic arts, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, persuasive arts, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Alcoa Steamship Company, American Caribbean Line, Andrew and Roni Smulian Collection, Antilles, bas relief, Caribbean, Caribbean Cruise Lines, Children's books, Christiane Taubira (Cultural Ambassador, Christopher Columbus, Cie. Gle. Transatlantique, Clément Leclerc (French Consul General), Colonial expositions, coloring books, cruises, deck plans, Edouard Glissant (1928–2011), Elise Grace Holloway, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931 : Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), France Florida Foundation for the Arts, French Embassy in the USA, French Guiana, French Line, fruit baskets, Grace Line, Great White Fleet, Guadalupe, Guyane, Hamburg-American Line, Holland-America Line, Home Lines, Ile de France (steamship), John Henry Collection, L'Atlantique (Steamship), Lloyd Sabaudo, M.S. Italia, Martinique, Moore & McCormack Co., Normandie (Steamship), Palm trees, Paris, passenger ships, pavilions, pirates, pochoir prints, Promotional materials, S.S. Reliance, S.S. Statendam, Thomas C. Ragan, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, Tout-Monde Festival (March 2018), Tout-Monde Festival), travel, Vanessa Selk, watercolors, West Indies
Oui, Je Parle Français! FIU French Language Students Encounter Museum Founder Micky Wolfson
• November 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, displays, ethnohistory, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic designers, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, Orientalism, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abecediaries, Albert Laprade (1883-1978), Alfred Janniot, Alfred Janniot (1889-1969), alphabet books, Art Nouveau, Austria, bas relief, calendars, Colonial expositions, colonizers, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Exposition Universelle (Paris: 1900), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, French, French architects, French language students, Holocaust Memorial (Miami Beach), human zoos, Huts, Julius Klinger (1876-1942), Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age (Wolfsonian exhibition), Léon Jaussely (1875-1932), Le Cercle Francais, Musée Permanent des Colonies, Palais de la Porte Doree, Paris, pavilions, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Selling the Golden Leaf (Wolfsonian library installation), sub-Saharan Africa, Tobacco, Vichy France, viewbooks
Visit by Mandela Washington Fellows
• July 8, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Boers, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, South African War, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women, Zulus
Tags: Abissinia, Africa, Africa Oriental, Africans, Angola, Aurelio Bertiglia, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Brochures, Charles Montague Elliott Wilson, Colonial expositions, Congo, Deutsch Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, East Africa, Equatorial Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European colonies in Africa, Gabon, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Mandela Washington Fellowship, Maps, Mocambique, Musee des Colonies (Paris), native peoples, Niger, photograph albums, Portuguese empire, Sierra Leone, Sketchbooks, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Steve Heller, sub-Saharan Africa, Union Castle Line, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zanzibar, Zulus
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