A Night for Celebrating Heroines
• October 1, 2022 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, acquisitions, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, displays, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, pochoirs, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Revanchism", Alsace-Lorraine, Booklegger Library director, Carlton Maloney, Children's propaganda books, color chromolithographs, Comic books, coveralls, DC Comics, deluxe editions, Edouard-Garcia Benito, figurines, First World War, Francis Xavier Luca, Franco-Prussian War, French illustrators, goddesses, gothic cathedrals, Guy Arnoux, heroes, heroines, Into the Stacks (Wolfsonian public program), Joan of Arc, Legends, Life (magazine), Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Middle Ages, munitions factories, Musical scores, Nathaniel Sandler, Norman Rockwell, Notre-Dame de Reims, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pochoir plates, pochoirs, portfolios, Prophet Isaiah, Red Cross nurses, Reims, Robert Burnand, Rosie the Riveter, Sandra Solis Hazim, Second World War, Sheet music covers, silhouettes, Sistine Chapel, stencilwork, tattoos, The Wolfsonian cafe and gift shop, Wikipedia, women's war work, Wonder Woman
Through a Glass Darkly: Colonial Views of Africa
• July 26, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, children's books, Children's propaganda books, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Fascism, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Zulus
Tags: 1910, 1935, 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques (Paris), Addis Abeba (Ethiopia), Adua (Ethiopia), Africa, Africans, Africans in art, Akbaba (Turkish periodical), Arthur Dupagne, Belgian Congo, Benito Mussolini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Botswana, Brussels, Burkina Faso, calendars, Cameroon, Carl Weller, Children's propaganda books, collecting cards, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, colonialism, Colonies, Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Deutsche Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, diaries, displays, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Exhibition buildings, games, Ghana, Guinea, Huts, Italian Empire, Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896), Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), La Barre à Mine (Mining Bar), Lamy, Laurence Miller, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mandela Washington fellows, menus, Namibia, Nazis, Niger, Nigeria, ocean liners, pavilions, photograph albums, photographs, postcards, propaganda, Rwanda, S.S. Leopoldville, Samoliland, Scrapbooks, sculpture, Sketchbooks, South Africa, Steve Heller, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United Republic of Tanzania, Union Castle Line, Woermann-Linie, Zambia, Zanxibar, Zulus
Paris Liberated on This Day in History: A Wolfsonian Library Reflection
• August 25, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, book art, children's books, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, portfolios, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Animals in art, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Children in art, Children's propaganda books, Eiffel Tower, Eugene Delacroix's "liberty Leading the People" (1830), French Resistance, liberation of Paris (1944), Martijn F. Lecoultre, Paris, parodies, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Pierre Laval (1883-1945), playing cards, portfolios, Tanks, World War (1939-1945), World War II
A DOUBLE DOSE OF EVIL: GUEST LECTURERS KEN JOHNSON, STEVE HELLER, AND POISONOUS PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
• March 26, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, American war propaganda, anti-Semitism, anti-tobacco campaign, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, Communism, Communists, donations, exhibitions, FIU, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Green Library, Holocaust, Iron fists, Jews, library donors, museums, Nazi propaganda, Oren Stier, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Anti-Jewish propaganda, Antisemitism, “Branding the Nazis” (lecture), “Fips” pseudonym for cartoonist Philipp Rupprecht ((1900-1975), “Quiet Violence: The Deep Structure of Violence in the Graphic Arts” (lecture), “Race and Visual Culture Under National Socialism” (Exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum (FIU), Children's propaganda books, Demonization, Der Stürmer (Periodical), Design educators, designers, dictators, Don’t Trust a Fox on a Green Heath or a Jew By His Oath (Nazi children’s book), Eric Feiler, evil, Final Solution, FIU Associate Professor Oren Stier, FIU Jewish Studies Program, Frank Luca, Frost Museum Teaching Gallery, graphic designers, Guest lecturers, Heinrich Hoffmann (1885-1957), Holocaust, Identity and differentiation, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State / by Steve Heller (2008), Julius Streicher (1885-1946), Juvenile literature, Louise Fili, Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917), Material and Visual Culture of the Holocaust, National Socialism, Nazi visual culture, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, podcasts, Professor Kenneth Johnson, Race hatred, Race-baiting, Steve Heller, Swastikas, The Daily Heller (blog post), The Poison Mushroom (Nazi children’s book), The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption? / by Steve Heller (2008), War Criminals
THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIANS RAISE THEIR VOICES
• February 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Boers, British Army, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, David Almeida, Dennis Wiedman, Digital Library Specialist, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Acisclo Fernandez, Alfred Dreyfus, Ana Ochoa, Andrea Doria, Augustus John Lavie, Austrian Secession, Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), British colonies, Children's propaganda books, China, Christopher DiCarlo, Cold War, Cristina Pereda, David Almeida, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dreyfus Affair, Edouard Benedictus, Emile Zola, FIU History Professor Elizabeth Heath, FIU Professor Dennis Wiedman, FIU Professor Raul Reis, FIU Professor Yvette Piggush, French anti-Semitism, German-occupied France, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Japanese internment, Jill Bugajski, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Michel Potop, Mongolia, Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis), pochoir prints, Rochelle Pienn, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sand in their Boots (event), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharon Gooden, South African War (1899-1902), Tibet, Valentine's Day, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, Wolfsonian fellows, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellow Peril
CRY “HAVOC!” AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR: PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• December 19, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, donations, exhibitions, gifts, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, library donors, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, Pamela K. Harer, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian rare books ephemera special collections periodicals Florida International University antiquarian propaganda persuasive arts design museum research provocative, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, American eagles, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, animal allegories, Anti-German propaganda, appeasement, Belgium, Boche, bulldogs, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Charles Lindbergh, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, curators, Dachshunds, Democratic donkey, doghouses, dogs in art, Donald Thompson Carlisle (1894-?), Dutch duck, Fifth Columnists, Flags, Francis Xavier Luca, Gallic rooster, German shepherds, German-occupied Belgium, German-occupied France, German-occupied Netherlands, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Illustrated children's books, Illustrated Postal Card & Novelty Company (New York), jeeps, Jews, John Bull, Joseph Miscione, Juliet Kinchin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Leiws Christopher Edward Baumer (1870-1963), loans, Marianne, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Nicodemus helps Uncle Sam, Occupied territories, orphans, parodies, Patriotism, poodles, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, propaganda in educational media, rabid dogs, Randolph Caldecott, Rats, Refugee children, Russian bear, satires, spiked helmets, Tanks, The Mad Dog of Potsdam, The Ordeal of Oliver Airdale, Uncle Sam, Vater ist im Kriege, Viktor Nikolaevich Deni (1893-1946), war refugees, Wolfsonian museum loans, wolves, Woodrow Wilson, Yussuf the Ostrich
VISITORS TO THE WOLFSONIAN DURING ART BASEL
• December 14, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Adolf Hitler caricatures, airplanes, American war propaganda, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, automobile design, bindings, book art, cars, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, Constructivism, cruise ships, Cuba, displays, donations, El Lissitzky, Ethiopia, exhibitions, Frederic A. Sharf, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lissitzky, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, photography, political art, portfolios, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Steve Heller, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, war propaganda, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 20th Century Limited (train), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Advertisements, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Around the world cruises, Art Basel, Art Deco, Art deco book bindings, Art Nouveau, Austrian Secession, automobiles, Axis, Batik, book bindings, Bruno Munari (1907-1998), caricatures, Children's propaganda books, Contempo, De Stille Kracht, Depero Futurista, Display cards, Dlia Golosa, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Flying Clipper, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Frederic A. Sharf, Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), indigenous peoples, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jeffrey Flemings, John Vassos (1898-1985), L'Inflation Sentimentale, Leonard A. Lauder, manufacturers' catalogs, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Nazis, ocean liners, Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Orion (Steamship), Pamela K. Harer, Peggy Loar, photograph albums, playing cards, pochoir prints, portfolios, postcards, Promotional materials, Richard P. Schick, Samples, Seguy, Sheet music covers, Steve Heller, Textile designs, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III, Thomas C. Ragan, Ultimo, Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Wiener Werkstatte
YOUNG @ ♥ NY: THE WOLFSONIAN TO LOAN ITEMS TO AN EXHIBITION ON CHILDREN AT MoMA
• June 3, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in children's books, Children's propaganda books, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Child's Play, Children's propaganda books, curators, Illustrated children's books, Indoctrinating Youth, Juliet Kinchin, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum loans, youth movements
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 