A Tribute to the Red Cross and Heroic Nurses on the COVID-19 Front Lines
• April 7, 2020 • 3 CommentsPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, Disaster relief, First World War (1914-1918), FIU community, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, Italy, Lawrence Wiggins III, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: American Expeditionary Forces, American flag, army, civilian casualties, Columbia, corona, coronavirus, covid 19, face masks, Henry S. Hacker, Influenza Pandemic (1918), Jennie Mazzei Micela, Miami Beach, navy, Nurses, nurses and nursing, pandemics, postcards, posters, President Woodrow Wilson, public health, Red Cross nurses, Sheet music covers, Spanish flu epidemic, Vincenzo Mazzei
UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARY, RMS LUSITANIA: SOME WOLFSONIAN REFLECTIONS ONE HUNDRED YEARS (AND ONE DAY) LATER
• May 8, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1915, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: atrocities, cartoons, civilian casualties, contraband, Cruiser Rules, Cunard, Dachshunds, devils, drowning, Elbert Hubbard, German sympathizers, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Ireland, Isador and Ida Straus, John Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm II, King Herod, Liverpool, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mauritania, Mexican intervention 1914, military preparedness, Miss Liberty, moustaches, Norddeutscher Lloyd, ocean liners, passengerships, peace at any price, pickelhaube helmets, pirates, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, Richard Preston Prichard, RMS Lusitania, Satan, scarecrows, Sealions, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, steamships, strawmen, strict neutrality, submarines, Thomas C. Ragan, torpedoes, U-20, U-Boats, Uncle Sam, unrestricted submarine warfare, white feathers, World War (1914-1918), WWI
HALLOWEEN, WOLFSONIAN-STYLE: DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, AND THE HORRORS OF THE “GREAT WAR”
• October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Florida International University, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Anton Kaes, Armistice (November 11th 1918), barbed wire, Camouflage, Cesare (film character), civilian casualties, coffins, Count Orlok, Cubism, Death, defoliated trees, Dr. Caligari (film character), F. W. Nurnau, Film noir, flu, Full Speed Ahead! (newspaper), G. Pretty's Kultur (water-color painting), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Halloween, Holstenwall, hypnotism, influenza, influenza pandemic (1918-1919), insane asylums, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), military conscription, movie reviews, movie sets, Nosferatu (film: 1922), plague, prophesy, psychiatrists, rat hunts, Rats, Red Cross, shadows, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, shell-bursts, Shell-shock, showmen, silent film classics, Silent Shriek (Wolfsonian film series), social criticism, somnambulists, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1921), the Great War (1914-1918), Transylvania, Trench warfare, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière / [painting by] Andre Brouillet (1886), Vampires, Vermin, war and film, war artists, War casualties, war crimes, war neurosis, William Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960), World War (1914-1918), Wounded war veterans, zombies
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A CIVIL WAR: PARALLEL PERPSECTIVES ON CONFLICT AND PROPAGANDA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• September 15, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, Anti-Nazi propaganda, Artists, Children's propaganda books, displays, Fascism, Great Britain, Holocaust, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, rare books and special collections library, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Spanish Civil War, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, wartime Britain, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: "Reds", al-Qaeda jihadists, atrocities, Bilbao (Spain), cartoons, Cathedrals, Catholic nuns, Chas Laborde (1886-1941), Chemical warfare, Chemical weapons, civilian casualties, Convents, Crucifixion, gas attacks, Gas masks, German occupied territories, Islamic extremists, Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Joseph Stalin, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Latakia (Syria), leaflets, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Maaloula (Syria), massacres, Miami Ad School, Monasteries, Nuns, P.O.W.s, Photos don't lie, President Bashar al_Assad of Syria, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Prison camps, Prisoners of war, Reims, religious wars, Republic of Salo, Sacred sites, Terror, terrorists, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975), U-Boat attacks, War and religion, war prisoners, Wittenberg (Germany)
CHILD SOLDIERS, CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AND WAR IN THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU COLLECTION
• May 9, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, colonial propaganda, colonialism, donations, Fascism, Italy, Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Spanish Civil War, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vintage postcards, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Abd-El-Krim, Abd-El-Krim (1882/3-1963), Aurelio Bertiglia, Battle of Annual (Morocco), Berbers, Chemical weapons, Child's Play, Children in war imagery, civilian casualties, crimes against humanity, Dámaso Berenguer, Delegación Nacional de Prensa y Propaganda de F.E.R. y de las J.O.N.S, East Africans, Ethiopia, Fabrica Nacional de Productos Quimicos plant (La Marañosa), Fascism, Flecha (periodical), Geneva convention, Geneva Protocol, guerrilla leaders, Hugo Stolzenberg, Italo-Ethiopian war, Italy, League of Nations, martyrs, Morocco, mustard gas, North Africans, Padre Reginaldo Guiliani (1887-1936), postcards, propaganda, rare periodicals, Rif rebellion, Second Italo-Abyssinian War (1935-1937), Spain, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Steve Heller, Syria, Treaty of Versailles
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