Amazing Grace
• February 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, collectors, donations, gifts, interns, library donors, memorabilia, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: airlines, Ambrose (lightship), Brochures, cocktail stirrers, cruise lines, cruise ships, deck plans, Elise Grace Holloway, FIU History Graduate Student Researcher, Genevieve Rossin, glassware, Grace Line, Jones-White Act, luggage labels, matchcovers, menus, Pan-American Grace Airways, Panagra, Panama Canal, playing cards, porcelain, Promotional materials, Prudential Line, Santa Clara (Steamship), Santa Lucia (cargo ship), Santa Paula (cargo ship), Santa Rosa (cargo ship), silverware, Souvenirs, swizzle sticks, Thomas C. Ragan, Troopships, W. R. Grace & Company, William Grace Holloway III, World War (1939-1945)
Achille’s Keel: A Wolfsonian Glimpse of the Achille Lauro on the Anniversary of the Hijacking
• October 10, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Dr. Laurence Miller, Indian Ocean, Laurence Miller Collection, Mediterranean Sea, oceanliners
Tags: Achille Lauro (ship), collisions at sea, cruise ships, fires, hijackings, Leon Klinghoffer, MS Willem Ruys (ship), Palestine Liberation Organization, passenger ships, PLO, Rotterdamsche Lloyd, Ship sinkings, terrorists, Wolfsonian-FIU library
SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE THOMAS RAGAN COLLECTION OF OCEAN LINER MATERIALS AT THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• September 26, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Athlone Castle (Steamship), Britannic (Steamship), Britannic II (Steamship), Carithia (Steamship), children’s books, collectors, Colonial tourism, cruise ships, G. J. Frans Naerebout ; Merchant Navy, Library Assistant Michel Potop, lighthouses, Lusitania (Steamship), Mauretania (Steamship), Normandie (Steamship), ocean liners, Olympic (Steamship), passenger ships, Promotional materials, Queen Mary (Steamship), Rangitoto (Steamship), schooners, sticker books, Strathnaver (Steamship), Thomas C. Ragan, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tugboats, United States (Steamship), White Star Line, yacht races, young readers
WELCOME ABOARD THE S.S. WOLFSONIAN FOR A SPECTACULAR FOOD AND WINE EXPERIENCE
• February 25, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in cruise ships, Cunard Line, curator, displays, donations, FIU, Florida International University, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, luggage labels, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: "behind the Scenes" tours, Andrew Carmellini, Anthony Bourdain, art handlers, Azamara Club Cruises, Bremen (Steamship), Brochures, Carlos Prado, Celebrity chefs, Clyde-Mallory Lines, Conte di Savoia, cruise ships, curators, Daniel Boulud, David McMillan, Eric Ripert, Exhibition designers, Francois Payard, Frederic Morin, Furness Bermuda Line, Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Italia Flotte Riunite, Italian Line, Johannes Tysse, Laurence Miller, menus, museum events, Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), ocean liners, promotional literature, Rex (steamship), Richard Miltner, Roma (steamship), Royal Caribbean, Royal Packet Navigation Co., S.S. Wolfsonian, Silvia Barisione, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Steve Forero-Paz, Swedish American Line, Thomas C. Ragan, United States Line
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