A Farewell to Arms and Welcome to “Railroaded” Indians
• July 12, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Artists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, trains, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: America the Beautiful: American Indians and the Promotion of National Parks (Wolfsonian library installation), American Indians, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Blackfeet Indians, calendars, California Limited, Charles L. Marshall Jr., corn dance ceremony, decoration, Empire route, feather headresses, femme fatales, Francis Luca, Glacier National Park, Great Northern Railway, Hopi Indians, In the Shadows: American Pulp Cover Art (Wolfsonian library installation), Indians, indigenous peoples, Kachina dolls, Louis W. Hill, Mitchell Wolfson Sr. Foundation, mosaics, murals, National Parks, Native Americans, native peoples, Navajos, ornament, ornamental metal sculpture, Paul Cret, Pikuni and Kainah Blackfeet Indians, playing cards, portfolio plates, portraits, promotional literature, Pueblo Indians, railroad executives, Railroads, redheads, Richard L. Tooke, Santa Fe (New Mexico), Santa Fe Line, See America campaign, Union Terminal Station (Cincinnati Ohio), Vicki Gold Levi, William Penhallow Henderson, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
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
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
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
THE TRIALS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
• December 18, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 1930s, Alex Lichtenstein, Angelo Herndon (1913-1997), Brian Orfall, Communist Pary of the United States, Florida International University, Francis Luca, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), Jim Crow, library exhibitions, racism, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Teaching American History Master's Degree Program, Trials
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