Dr. Laurence Miller: Librarian, Mentor, Friend, and Cruise Line Collector
• March 17, 2023 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1950s, acquisitions, cataloging, collectors, cruise ships, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, transatlantic voyages, volunteers, Wolfsonian staff, world cruises
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A VERY WOLFSONIAN MEDITERRANEAN VACATION
• June 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in architects, architecture, Artists, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, Earthquakes, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, Green Library, Italy, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, monumental architecture, museum architecture, museum conservation, museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, postcards, posters, preservation, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, theatre, Vienna Secession, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Acropolis Museum (Athens), Angiolo Mazzoni (1894-1979), Antonio Giuseppe Santagata (1888-1985), Assisi (Italy), Bell-towers, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Beth Dunlop, Bon Voyage (Wolfsonian library exhibit), cafes, Calabria, Catania (Sicily), Cathedrals, Chania (Crete), Churches, Civitavecchia, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, Classical ruins, classical statues, Dale Chihuly (1941- ), deck plans, discotheques, Dr. Laurence Miller, Duilio Cambellotti (1876-1960), Eastern Mediterranean, Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Ephesus, Francis Xavier Luca, frescoes, Greek ruins, Greek Theatres, Ideal Gladstone, Kuşadası (Turkey), La Casa Madre dell'Associazione Naz. Mulitati e Invalidi in Rome, Latina, Leonard A. Lauder, Littoria, Madonnina, Marcello Piacentini (1881-1960), Maya-inspired architecture, menus, Messina (Sicily), Messina Earthquake of 1908, Morris Lapidus (1902-2001), mosques, Mount Etna, Mt. Etna, Museo Duilio Cambellotti, Navigator of the Seas, Ostia Antica, Parthenon, Piraeus (Greece), Pontine marshes, Port of Piraeus, postcards, posters, Rex (steamship), Roman ruins, Rome, Royal Caribbean, San Diego Historical Society, spaghetti, Spires, stained glass, Syracusa, Taormina (Sicily), Thomas C. Ragan, tourism, tourist trade, tourist trinkets, Vatican, Vatican Museums, Venice, Vienna Secession, Vienna Workshop, Virgin Mary, volcanoes, White Star Line
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