From Magazines to Zines
• February 7, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, African American History, Bernarr Macfadden, bindings, book art, CCC, children's books, circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, displays, donations, fashion, fashion for women, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Lloyd Wright, fur, gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, Pamela K. Harer, Physical culture, postcards, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Robert J. Young, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, typography, Wiener Werkstatte, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, youth movements, Zines
Tags: A-D (magazine), AIZ (magazine), Amazing Stories (pulp magazine), animal exploitation, Anti-Asian prejudice, beauty culture, Black Lives Matter movement, Black Venus, body image, bolt bindings, book bindings, Braddock, branding, carbon paper, cartoons, CCC camp zines, CCC camps, Circuses, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, David Almeida, Dust Bowl, Elizabeth Zoe Welch, Environmental movement, Ethiopia, Expo '74 (Spokane), fanzines, foils, Fortunato Depero (1892-1960), Fourth of July, Francis Xavier Luca, Frank Buck, fur, gay/lesbian literature, Gender roles, Gina Wouters, Hialeah Gardens, iPrep, Italian futurists, jokes, José Martí MAST, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Revue Ford (magazine), Law Enforcement Senior High, LGBTQ, Louis C. Tiffany & Co., Magazines, Miami Beach High, Miami Norland, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, mimeograph machines, news, objectification of women, Patriotism, Periodicals, photocopiers, Photomontage, Physical Culture (magazine), plastic bindings, poetry, prejudice, pulp magazines, pulp paperbacks, Ring (magazine), science fiction, sexual orientation, Sheet music covers, South Miami, Southwest Miami, stereotypes, tailored suits, Terra, textiles, the "Me Too" movement, the Blues, The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, transparencies, Uncle Sam, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Wells Fargo, Wendingen (magazine), womanizing, Zines
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
FROM WHIPLASH LINES THROUGH UTOPIA TO SKYSCRAPERS: BUILT AND UNBUILT LANDMARK ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 6, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American architects, architects, architecture, Art Nouveau (architecture), British architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hector Guimard (1867-1942), museums, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Unrealized architecture, Unrealized architecture exhibit, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Adolf Loos, Adolf Meyer, Antoni Gaudí, Architect designed furniture, architectural competitions, architectural portfolios, Art Nouveau architecture, Bellahouston Park, Bruno Busch, Bruno Taut, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Chicago Tribune, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Eliel Saarinen, Emile Zola, English Arts and Crafts movement, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glasgow, Hans Hahn, Haus eines Kunstfreundes, Hector Guimard, Heinrich Mossdorf, hydroelectric power, John Mead Howells, Le Castel Béranger, Leopold Bauer, Lexington Terraces, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Margaret Macdonald, Marion Mahony Griffin, Native Americans in architecture, neo-Gothic architecture, Nicolae Harsanyi, Otto Wagner, Peter Behrens, Prairie School, Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna, Raimondo Tommaso D’Aronco, Raymond Hood, Rowan Moore, The Observer, Tony Garnier, Tribune Tower, unbuilt architectural designs, Une cité industrielle, utopian cities, Victor Horta, Victor Metzger house, vocational schools, Walter Gropius, Wasmuth Portfolio, Winslow Vila
THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE 1930s: SELECTIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 28, 2013 • 3 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), New Deal (1933-1939), persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: African American history, American League Against War and Fascism, anti-lynching campaigns, Antonio Arias Bernal (1914-1960), Brian Orfall, Cartoonists, civil rights, civil rights activists, Communist organizers, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Communists, David Almeida, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), J. Edgar Hoover, Jack O'Dell, James W. Ford, Linocuts, lithographs, lynchings, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Martijn F. Lecoultre, MLK, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Negro Rights, North Star Shining, Political cartoons, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Robert (Bobby) Kennedy, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Socialists, Vaughn Shoemaker (1902-?), vice presidential candidates, Wood and linoleum block printing, wood engravings
UP, UP, AND AWAY: AIRSHIPS ON EXHIBIT AND ONLINE FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 1, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, airplanes, cars, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, exhibitions, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, ocean liners, passenger ships, photography, portfolios, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, transatlantic voyages, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1860s, 1870s, 1920s, Aircraft, airships, Aluminum, American Civil War, Balloons, Commemorative works, David Almeida, Digital Resources Photographer, Dirigibles, Disasters, Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1838–1917), flight, Giants Lighter Than Air (Wolfsonian library exhibit), Graf Zeppelin (airships), Hindenburg (airship), Hindenburg disaster, Hydrogen gas balloons, illustrated books, Labels, Lighter-than-air ships, mechanical works, Nicolae Harsanyi, porcelain plates, Scarfs, stereographs, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832-1913), Transportation, travel, zeppelins
THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARIANS RAISE THEIR VOICES
• February 8, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in accessioning, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, archives, Boers, British Army, cataloging, collectors, colonial propaganda, colonialism, David Almeida, Dennis Wiedman, Digital Library Specialist, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, ethnohistorical methods, ethnohistory, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, France, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jews, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Occupied France, ocean liners, oceanliners, passenger ships, Photograph albums, pochoirs, postcards, promotional materials, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Vicki Gold Levi, VIP vistors, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II, WWII
Tags: Acisclo Fernandez, Alfred Dreyfus, Ana Ochoa, Andrea Doria, Augustus John Lavie, Austrian Secession, Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901), British colonies, Children's propaganda books, China, Christopher DiCarlo, Cold War, Cristina Pereda, David Almeida, Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Dr. Laurence Miller, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Dreyfus Affair, Edouard Benedictus, Emile Zola, FIU History Professor Elizabeth Heath, FIU Professor Dennis Wiedman, FIU Professor Raul Reis, FIU Professor Yvette Piggush, French anti-Semitism, German-occupied France, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, Japanese internment, Jill Bugajski, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Michel Potop, Mongolia, Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis), pochoir prints, Rochelle Pienn, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Sand in their Boots (event), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sharon Gooden, South African War (1899-1902), Tibet, Valentine's Day, Vicki Gold Levi, vintage postcards, Wolfsonian fellows, Work Projects Administration (WPA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Yellow Peril
“BACK TO WORK” EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• December 26, 2012 • Leave a CommentPosted in American left artists, Christopher DeNoon, curator, Digital Library Specialist, exhibitions, FDR, Federal One, FIU, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Great Depression, History Department, leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, persuasive arts, photography, political art, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Bonus March, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, WPA
Tags: art handlers, Back to Work: FDR and Labor's New Deal (Exhibit), David Almeida, Describing Labor (exhibition), Dr. Francis Xavier Luca, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Great Depression, Iris Sanchez-Ruiz, James Taylor, labor leaders, labor movement, Miami-Dade County schoolteachers, New Deal, Rosita Maria Sosa, strikes, Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, World War II
A WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXPERIMENT IN METADATA, DIGITIZATION, AND A POETRY SCAVENGER HUNT
• November 28, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in decorative arts, interns, museums, photography, propaganda arts, volunteers, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: artifacts, Associate librarian, butterflies, cataloging, catalogs, Chief librarian, David Almeida, digital images, Digital library specialist, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Francis Luca, illustrated poetry, images, library tours, metadata, Mother Earth, mothers and sons, moths, museum collections, objects, opacs, pine needles, poetry, rare books cataloguer, Rochelle Pienn, scavenger hunts, snow
BARON MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU, THE NATIONAL MOTOR MUSEUM, AND THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 15, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, cars, collectors, Digital Library Specialist, displays, donations, exhibitions, Fascism, FIU, Florida International University, Ford Motor Company, Great Britain, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, school visits to The Wolfsonian, streamlined cars, Styled for the Road, Styled for the Road (Exhibition), The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore W. Pietsch, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Advertising American Automobiles Abroad (Wolfsonian Library Exhibit), antique cars, automobiles, automotive ephemera, Beaulieu (Hampshire County England), David Almeida, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu (3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu), Futuristic vehicles, Mantagu Motor Museum, motor cars, Museum founders, National Motor Museum, Packard automobiles, Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design (1908-1948), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), vintage cars
WOLFSONIAN PROFILE: LIBRARY INTERNS ALEXANDER GORDON AND JOSELYN NARANJO
• June 16, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in accessioning, acquisitions, cataloging, Christopher DeNoon, displays, donations, exhibitions, Far East, Federal Writers' Project, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Frederic A. Sharf, FWP, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, interns, Japan, Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, Russo-Japanese War, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian Library volunteers, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, World War II, WPA, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1930s, Alexander Gordon, American Guide Series, CLara Helena Palacio-de Luca, David Almeida, Elections, Francis Xavier Luca, Gardner Museum (Boston), Joselyn Naranjo, Lexington Green, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Patriotic Propaganda for WOmen and Children on the Home Front (virtual exhibit), political campaigns, Port Arthur, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt, Rochelle Pienn, See America campaign
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