Around the World at the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• September 20, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Coolies, ethnohistory, Far East, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, labor, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, British Empire, China, Church Missionary Society, Coolies, FIU Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University faculty, Global & Sociocultural Studies, graduate students, Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957), Nicolae Harsanyi, photograph albums, Professor Gail Hollander, Rochelle Pienn, Royal Artillery, unskilled manual laborers
VISITORS FROM FAR AWAY
• April 30, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in children's books, Children's propaganda books, Communism, displays, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Manchuria, Photograph albums, political art, propaganda, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: “Cultural Revolution”, Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), China, Eric Dluhosch, museum professionals, t
SOMEWHERE I’LL FIND YOU, OR, PUBLISHERS’ DECORATIVE BINDINGS ON THE PHILIPPINES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• June 22, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manila (Philippines), Philippine-American War (1899-1902), Philippines, publishers' decorative bindings, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Carole Lombard, China, China Seas, Clark Gable, Filipinos, Japan, Margherita Arlina Hamm, Philippine Insurrection, Rochelle Pienn, Second World War, Somewhere I'll Find You (film), Spanish- American War of 1898, Spotwood's Expedition, U.S. Army
A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, OR, A STUDENT RECEPTION WITH WOLFSONIAN-FIU RARE BOOK LIBRARIANS
• April 8, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Ben Stiller, New York Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum
Tags: Antonio Pettini, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Boxer Rebellion, C. A. Lion Cachet, China, Dr. Annette Fromm, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Fannie Caldwell, Fascism, FIU Museum Studies, Germany, Indonesia, Jacob Maris, Japan, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Kawi, Milan Trenc, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sergeant Edwin Taylor, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, South African War (1899-1902), Wakana Utigawa, Wolfsonian-FIU library
FROM THE BOROUGH TO THE BEACH, OR, THE LIFE OF LINDA THE INTERN AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• January 27, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in archives, cataloging, colonial tourism, Frederic A. Sharf, interns, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library
Tags: 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment of Great Britain, Albumen photographs, China, Frederic Houlton Summers, Gillander & Co. (mercantile), H. W. Benson, India, James Harrison Wilson, Japan, Linda Hernandez, Lions, New York Public Library, Opium, Prostitutes, Queens (New York), Shanghai (China), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sotheby's, Temple of the 500 Genii, University of South Florida, women
ON EPIDEMICS AND ESCAPE ROUTES: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PANAMA CANAL AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 15, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in cruise ships, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Panama Canal, passenger ships, Photograph albums, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition)
Tags: Aniceto García Menocal (1836–1908), Canals, China, Dollar Steamship Line, Dr. William Gorgas, Ebola, First World War, France, I. L. Maduro Jr., interoceanic canals, Ishtmus of Panama, Isthmian Canal Commission, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Saxton Mills, Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1847-1928), Le Sanitarium (Toboga), malaria, New York Journal (newspaper), Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Canal project, Panama Canal Authority, President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Robert Dollar, SS President Van Buren, Suez Canal, transoceanic canals, United States, USS Pennsylvania, Venta Cruz (Panama), West Africa, William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Willis J. Abbot, yellow fever
TODAY IN HISTORY: 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAO ZEDONG’S BIRTHDAY FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• December 26, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communism, Communists, donations, Far East, gifts, graphic arts, Iron fists, library donors, persuasive arts, propaganda, propaganda arts, Steve Heller, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Anniversaries, Asia, “cult of the leader” propaganda, “Cultural Revolution”, “Little Red Book”, Birthdays, branding, Chairman Mao, China, Communism, dictatorships, Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State, Mao Tse-tung, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Steve Heller
The Manchurian Candidate: Views of the Russo-Japanese War from the Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection at The Wolfsonian – FIU Library
• December 17, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonialism, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Battle of Port Arthur, Cavalry, China, Chinese Eastern Railway, Chinese-Japanese tensions, Cyber hacking, Cyberattacks, Dalian, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Hackers, Home front efforts, Japan, Japanese bliss deities, Military, Mothers, Panama Canal, Parsnips, Roses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War, Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), Tamemoto Kuroki (1844-1923), The Voice of Russia, virtual library displays
THE YEAR OF THE RAT: THE JOURNAL OF JASPER WHITING–A RECENT GIFT TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• August 13, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in donations, ethnohistory, Far East, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Photograph albums, photography, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women
Tags: American war correspondents, Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), China, ethnocentrism, Ethnohistorical sources, Ethnohistory, indigenous peoples, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, journals, war correspondents, women
LIGHTS, CAMERA, KOREA: IMAGES FROM THE JEAN S. AND FREDERIC A. SHARF COLLECTION AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• April 9, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, colonialism, donations, Far East, gender, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Manchuria, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "Land of the Morning Calm", and Customs (1907), athletes, Basketball players, China, Christian missions in Korea, Cinemas, Constance J. D. Coulson's Korea (from the series: Peeps at Many Lands, Dennis Rodman, Edward H. Fitchew (British painter), Far East, Frederick Arthur McKenzie's From Tokyo to Tiflis: Uncensored letters from the War, George Heber Jones' Korea: the Land, J. Morris' Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest (1895), Japanese Empire, Kim Jong-un, Kim Yu-na, Korea, Korean musicians in art, Manchuria, Maps, Methodist Episcopal missionaries, missile crises, North Korea, Olympic Figure skating champions, Orient, People, Pyongyang, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), South Korea, Sports figures, Travel narratives, W. R. Carles’s Life in Corea (1888), Yalu River
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