What’s On the Menu? The American Appetite for French Cabaret!
• April 2, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artists, collectors, curators, dance, displays, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "Revue Folies Bergere", 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Ambassadeurs (theatre-restaurant), Aquacade, Beryl Wallace, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (nightclub), Broadway (NYC), Cab Calloway, Cabarets, Cafe Zanzibar (nightclub), Casa Mañana, Chez Paree (nightclub), Chicago, chorus girls, Club Harlem (nightclub), Cotton Club, Dave Wolper's Hurricane Club, Duke Ellington, E. M. Loew, Earl Carroll, Earl Carroll's (supper club-theater), Eastern Steamship Lines, Edith Piaf, exotic dancers, floor shows, Folies Bergere (film: 1936), Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge (nightclub), French Casino (nightclub), Glamour, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), Hollywood, Hollywood Cabaret Restaurant, International Casino (nightclub), Latin Quarter (nightclub), Lou Walters, Maurice Chevalier, menus, Miami Beach, Moulin Rouge, New York City, Nicky Blair's Carnival (dinner club), Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, photograph sleeves, postcards, programs, revues, Rudy Vallee, Sally Rand, showgirls, Texas Centennial Exposition, The Man from the Folies Bergere (film: 1935), Thomas Hunter Henderson, vaccinations, Versailles (nightclub), What's On The Menus (Wolfsonian installation)
Giving Thanks and Debunking Myths
• November 24, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in book art, children's books, colonialism, donations, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., photography, postcards, racism, skyscrapers, The Wolfsonian Library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago: 1933-1934), Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909: Seattle WA), Alexander Phimister Proctor, American flag, Apache Indians, assimilation, Black Partridge, bronze sculptures, Buffalo Bill's WIld West Show, Carl Rohl-Smith (1848–1900), Centennial International Exhibition (1876: Philadelphia), Charles M. Russell, Cheyenne Indians, Chicago, Chief Simon Pokagon, children, Christopher Columbus, civilization, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, colonists, Cowboys, Custer's Last Stand, disease, Edward Berge (1876-1924), Envelopes, equestrian statues, ethnic cleansing, Exhibition buildings, fair grounds, fair-goers, feasts, feather headresses, Fort Dearborn, General George Armstron Custer, harvest celebrations, human zoos, Indian Removal, Indian reservations, Indians, James Earle Fraser (1876–1900), Jamestown Exposition (1907), John Smith, King Philip's War, Louisiana Purchase International Exposition (1904 : St Louis), Massasoit, Metacom, Midways, Miss Columbia, Native Americans, pavilions, Penobscot Indians, Pequot Indians, Pilgrims, Plains Indians, Pocahontas, Potawatomi Indians, Powhatan Confederacy, President Andrew Jackson, Red Man's Greeting, rituals, riveters, Santa Clara Indians, savagery, sculpture, Sioux Indians, skyscrapers, spectators, Squanto, Statues, teepees, Thanksgiving, Tickets, Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898 : Omaha Nebraska), Umatilla Indians, Ute Indians, viewbooks, Walt Disney, Walter Crane (1845-1915), Wampanoag Indians, white birch bark, wigwams, World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago), World's Fairs, Yakima Indian Reservation
MIAMI ICE: SOME COOL IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• July 10, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, cruise ships, displays, documentaries, donations, exhibitions, Federal Writers' Project, Florida Writers' Project, gifts, Italy, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress Exhibition (1933-1934: Chicago), Alaska, Artic, Aurora Borealis, Chicago, Children's Science Series, Clara (Breakey) Lambert, climate change, Cornelius Hough De Witt (1905-?), Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Glaciers, Global warming, Greenland, Hamburg-American Line, Icebergs, Iceland, Illustrated children's books, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), James Balog, Magic City, National Public Radio, Northern lights, Photochroms (color lithographic prints), Reykjavík (Iceland), Rome, Savoia-Marchetti S.55 S seaplanes, Sea level rise, seaplanes, snow, transatlantic flights, William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), WIndy City, Work Projects Administration, WPA
MAY DAY: HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS PROMPTED BY THE GARMENT WORKER TRAGEDY IN BANGLADESH AND RIOTS IN SEATTLE
• May 2, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communism, Communists, fashion, FDR, Great Depression, leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: Adolph Fischer (1858–1887), Albert Richard Parsons (1848-1887), Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, American Federation of Labor, Anarchism, Anarchists, August Vincent Theodore Spies (1855–1887), Bangladesh, Bangladesh building collapse, Bombs, Central Labor Union of Chicago, Chicago, Dangerous working conditions, demonstrations, Eight Hour Association, Garment industry, George Engel (1836-1887), Haymarket Square (Chicago), Industrial disasters, Knights of Labor, labor leaders, labor movement, Labor unions, Mass meetings, May Day, McCormick Reaper Works (Chicago), National Labor Relations Act of 1935, Police, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Radicals, Riots, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Socialist Labor Party, Sting, strikes, Sweat shops, Sweatshops, Textile Workers Union of America, The Police (musical group), Third World, Vandalism, violence, Wagner Act
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, 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
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
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