Graphic Design Visitors: A Bird’s-Eye View
• March 29, 2022 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, archives, Art Deco, Artists, avant-garde aesthetics, bindings, book art, children's books, Constructivism, Cuba, dance, exhibitions, FAP, Federal One, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Italian design, library donors, Miami Ad School, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, silk screen, skyscrapers, Soviet propaganda, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian Library, typography, Vienna, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian staff, WPA
Tags: Aerial Vision (Wolfsonian exhibition), aeronautics, aeropittura, Afro-Cuban dance culture, airplanes, Albino Siviero Verossi, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi, Art Deco, Art directors, aviation, Bas van Beek, bird's-eye views, Brittany Ballinger, Brochures, catalogs, Christopher Dresser, Constructivism, curators, designers, Federal Arts Project (FAP), font, Fortunato Depero, Francis Xavier Luca, Global Strategic Communication- Creative Track, graphic art, Italian Futurism, Karel Teige (1900-1951), Lea Nickless, Lobby cards, M.AD School of Ideas, Mac Harshberger (1900-1975), magazine cover art, Marlene Tosca Hunt, Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection, movie posters, Oscar Rieveling, Owen Jones, postcards, posters, Professor Albena Petrus Stoyanova, Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (exhibition), Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure--American Seduction (Wolfsonian exhibition), Promotional materials, rack cards, Renato Di Bosso, Royal Academy in The Hague, Shameless (Wolfsonian exhibition), Sheet music covers, skyscrapers, transatlantic flights, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Victorian art, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), WPA
A Transatlantic Voyage to the “Ocean State”
• April 18, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, archives, Art Deco, collectors, cruise ships, curators, Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., models, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, rare books and special collections library, Silvia Barisione, transatlantic voyages, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: archives, archivists, art deco interiors, bas relief, British Movietone, British Pathe, Cie. Cle. Transatlantique, Clarmont (steamboat), collectors, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, conservators, curators, Don Leavitt, Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation, French Line, fundrasiers, Grace Line, Hudson-Fulton Centennial Celebration, Jean Dunand, La Chasse [The Hunt], librarians, maiden voyages, Matthew Schulte, medalions, model ships, newsreels, Normandie (Steamship), North River Steamboat, ocean liner aficionados, ocean liners, posters, powerships, Providence (Rhode Island), radio personalities, Robert Fulton, Ship History Center, SS Normandie, SSHSA, Steamship Historical Society of America, steamships, Stephen Lash, Steve Donovan, Thomas C. Ragan, Warwick (Rhode Island)
WOLFSONIAN-FIU VISIT TO THE JEWISH MUSEUM OF FLORIDA-FIU
• March 4, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Mitchell Wolfson, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian staff
Tags: Arch, Art Deco (architecture), Chaim Lieberperson, culture, curators, Eva Shvedova, exhibitions, exhibits, George Dzialynski, Henry Hohauser, Michel Wolfsom Sr., Miss Florida, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., MOSAIC: Jewish Life in Florida, Museums, Ner Tamid, Sephardic, Shabbat, Temples, The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors, The Jewish of Florida-FIU, The Wolfsonian, Torah, tours
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
AIRSHIPS, SEAPLANES, AND FLYING MACHINES AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• October 18, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, airplanes, displays, documentaries, donations, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Fascism, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, library donors, memorabilia, Photograph albums, photography, political art, postcards, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, Vintage postcards, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: 1920s, air force, air shows, Airplane industry, airplanes, airships, Aristotle Ares, Art directors, art handlers, aviation, Aviators, Balloons and ballooning, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Besnier, biplanes, Carlos Alejandro, Clément Ader (1841-1925), Crowds, curators, Cyrano de Bergerac, dictators, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edmond Rostand, Exhibition designers, fascist dictators, flight, Flying machines, France, Graf Zeppelin (airship), Helicopters, Henri Farman (1874-1958), Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg disaster, Hot-air balloons, Hydrogen gas balloons, Icarus, Industrie Aeronautique, Italo Balbo (1896-1940), Italy, James Taylor, Jean-Baptiste Dante de la Perouse, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa Li, Louis Blériot (1872-1936), Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, Luftwaffe, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ 129 Hindenburg, LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II (airship), March on Rome (October 1922), Marquis of Bacqueville, Michel Potop, Montgolfier brothers, Mylinh Nguyen, parachutes, Peter Clericuzio, Richard Miltner, Savoia Marchetti seaplanes, seaplanes, Silvia Barisione, Statue of Liberty, Steve Forero-Paz, Tato (1896-1974), transatlantic flights, v. Römer, Voison biplane, Zeppelin at Friedrichshafen (Germany), zeppelins
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
AFTER A BRIEF TRIP TO MUNICH, IT’S OFF TO THE OPENING OF CENTURY OF THE CHILD AT MOMA IN NYC
• August 11, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), bindings, book art, children's books, Children's propaganda books, collectors, curator, displays, donations, Far East, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Peter Behrens (1868-1940), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI, youth movements
Tags: Aidan O'Connor, Antonio Rubino (1880-1964), Art collectors, Art Nouveau, Balilla Youth Movement, Beate Dry, Book collectors, Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000, Child's Play, Children and war, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, collectors, curators, ephemera, Francis Luca, games, Glimpses of the East, Graham Dry, Indoctrinating Youth, Italian fascism, Jr. Study Centre, Jugendstil book bindings, Juliet Kinchin, library exhibits, Merv Bloch, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Munich (Germany), museum storage, New-York Historical Society, Pamela K. Harer, Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), Peter Behrens (1868-1940), Private collections, The Mitchell Wolfson, toys, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsoniana (Genoa Italy), World War II toys
NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE LIBRARY COLLECTION
• October 13, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Amerindians, BIA, Big Cypress Reservation, Bureau of Indian Affairs, calendars, curators, domestic tourism, Farm Security Administration photographs, Federal Arts Project, Federal Arts Project (FAP), Federal Writers' Project, Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Florida guide, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FSA, Great Depression, Indians, John Collier Sr., Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Manville Chapman, Native Americans, Navaho rugs, Navajo Indians, New Deal, Office of Indian Affairs (Educational Division), Osceola, portraits, Robert Delson, See America campaign, Seminole Indians, Sydney Delson, The Education of Little Tree, The Only Good Indian, U.S. Office of indian Affairs, vintage postcards, William H. Helfand, Winold Reiss (1886-1953), wood block prints
VERNA CURTIS’ PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES: A TALK ON HER NEW BOOK ABOUT PHOTO ALBUMS
• July 9, 2011 • Leave a CommentPosted in colonial propaganda, colonialism, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, ocean liners, passenger ships, Philippine American War, promotional materials, propaganda, Ruth Kruger, S.S. Resolute, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises
Tags: curators, Empire Exhibition (1938), Estelle Zalkin family, Flamingo Hotel, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nautilus Hotel, New York World's Fair, photograph albums, Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography, Photography, Prints & Photographs Division (Library of Congress), Rochelle Pienn, Sharf Associate Librarian, Verna Curtis
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 