France’s Overseas Empire on Display
• November 27, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Deco, colonial propaganda, colonialism, displays, ethnohistory, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, international expositions, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, racism, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World's fairs
Tags: Africa, Albert Laprade, Alfred Janniot, Anja Decker, Arthur Dupagne, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, Dahomey, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (1931), Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 :Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, France's overseas empire, Francophiles, French colonies, gender, human zoos, indigenous peoples, interracial couples, Jaussely, Madagascar, modernism, Musée Permanent des Colonies, native peoples, North Africa, nudes, Palais de la Porte Doree, pavilions, Petit Journal, postcards, posters, primitivism, sculpture, Senegal, Strange Couple (painting : 1934)
Holiday Gifts
• December 14, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, book art, children's books, colonial propaganda, colonialism, dance, displays, donations, Egypt, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, portfolios, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African expeditions, Art Basel, automobiles, Bedouins, Berbers, Catholic missionaries, Charles de Roucauld (1858-1916), Colonial expositions, Daniel Morris, Eiffel Tower, France's overseas empire, French (language), French colonies, German-occupied France, human zoos, Huts, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Jean Sharf, Jim nd Martha Sweeny, Lake Chad, Le Tumulte Noir, Leonard Finger, Lisa Green, Louis Miano, martyrs, Midways, missionaries, Paris, Paul Colin, primitivism, Professor Antonieta Garcia, Sahara desert, Streets of Cairo, Tripoli, Tuareg peoples
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
Cruising the French Caribbean aboard the S.S. Wolfsonian
• March 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, collectors, colonial tourism, cruise ships, Cunard Line, displays, donations, France, Francis Xavier Luca, French consulate, gifts, graphic arts, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, persuasive arts, pochoirs, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Alcoa Steamship Company, American Caribbean Line, Andrew and Roni Smulian Collection, Antilles, bas relief, Caribbean, Caribbean Cruise Lines, Children's books, Christiane Taubira (Cultural Ambassador, Christopher Columbus, Cie. Gle. Transatlantique, Clément Leclerc (French Consul General), Colonial expositions, coloring books, cruises, deck plans, Edouard Glissant (1928–2011), Elise Grace Holloway, Exhibition buildings, Exposition Coloniale Internationale (1931 : Paris), Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris), France Florida Foundation for the Arts, French Embassy in the USA, French Guiana, French Line, fruit baskets, Grace Line, Great White Fleet, Guadalupe, Guyane, Hamburg-American Line, Holland-America Line, Home Lines, Ile de France (steamship), John Henry Collection, L'Atlantique (Steamship), Lloyd Sabaudo, M.S. Italia, Martinique, Moore & McCormack Co., Normandie (Steamship), Palm trees, Paris, passenger ships, pavilions, pirates, pochoir prints, Promotional materials, S.S. Reliance, S.S. Statendam, Thomas C. Ragan, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, Tout-Monde Festival (March 2018), Tout-Monde Festival), travel, Vanessa Selk, watercolors, West Indies
Oui, Je Parle Français! FIU French Language Students Encounter Museum Founder Micky Wolfson
• November 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, concentration camp, displays, ethnohistory, exhibit cases, exhibitions, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic designers, international expositions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, Orientalism, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: Abecediaries, Albert Laprade (1883-1978), Alfred Janniot, Alfred Janniot (1889-1969), alphabet books, Art Nouveau, Austria, bas relief, calendars, Colonial expositions, colonizers, Exposition Coloniale de Marseille (1922), Exposition Coloniale Internationale (Paris: 1931), Exposition Universelle (Paris: 1900), FIU Professor Maria Antonieta Garcia, French, French architects, French language students, Holocaust Memorial (Miami Beach), human zoos, Huts, Julius Klinger (1876-1942), Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age (Wolfsonian exhibition), Léon Jaussely (1875-1932), Le Cercle Francais, Musée Permanent des Colonies, Palais de la Porte Doree, Paris, pavilions, Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), Selling the Golden Leaf (Wolfsonian library installation), sub-Saharan Africa, Tobacco, Vichy France, viewbooks
Visit by Mandela Washington Fellows
• July 8, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, Boers, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, donations, FIU, Florida International University, Francis Xavier Luca, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., ocean liners, rare books and special collections library, South African War, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, women, Zulus
Tags: Abissinia, Africa, Africa Oriental, Africans, Angola, Aurelio Bertiglia, bas relief, Belgian Congo, Brochures, Charles Montague Elliott Wilson, Colonial expositions, Congo, Deutsch Afrika-Linien, Deutsche Ost-Afrika-Linie, East Africa, Equatorial Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, European colonies in Africa, Gabon, indigenous peoples, International exhibitions, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Mandela Washington Fellowship, Maps, Mocambique, Musee des Colonies (Paris), native peoples, Niger, photograph albums, Portuguese empire, Sierra Leone, Sketchbooks, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Steve Heller, sub-Saharan Africa, Union Castle Line, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Zanzibar, Zulus
Indigenous Peoples of the Wolfsonian, Unite and Take Notice
• October 28, 2016 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, architects, architecture, Art Deco, book art, British Army, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonial tourism, colonialism, cruise ships, Dennis Wiedman, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, exhibitions, Far East, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Frost Museum, gender, George B. Post (firm), gifts, globalism, Historical Methods, History Department, India, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Midways, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Modesto Maidique campus, museums, ocean liners, Orientalism, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Africa, Colonial expositions, colonialism, Colonies, David Rifkind, East Africa, Empire, Ethiopia, ethnocentrism, France's overseas empire, French Indochina, games, human zoos, India, indigenous peoples, Indo-Chine, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Native Americans, North Africa, Turkey
A WHIRLWIND OF VISITORS AND DISPLAYS OF EUROPEAN LIBRARY MATERIALS
• January 27, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in bindings, book art, Children's propaganda books, Civil Rights Movement, colonial propaganda, colonialism, cruise ships, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, international expositions, Modesto Maidique campus, Occupied France, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda arts, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Silvia Barisione, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Tori Arpad, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War II, World's fairs, WWII
Tags: Art installation students, Art Nouveau, Clara Palacio-de Luca, collaborators, Colonial expositions, Colonial tourism, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dutch East Indies, Dutch Nieuwe Kunst, Fascism, Francis Luca, French language students, French occupation, Indonesia, Italian colonies, Italy, Java, pochoirs, Professor Carmela McIntire, Professor Tori Arpad-Cotta, Steve Heller, Vichy France
Wolfsonian-FIU Library 