The Red Cross in Time of War
• August 22, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in American war propaganda, children's books, Children's propaganda books, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, Ethiopia, First aid, First World War (1914-1918), Japanese Empire, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, Russo-Japanese War, South African War, Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: 1864, Adolphus Solomons, ambulances, American Red Cross, atrocities, August 22, Broadsides, Clara Barton, Edith Cavell, emblems, ephemera, Frederic A. Sharf, Geneva convention, Hospitals, International Red Cross, Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jean-Henri Dunant, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, Ladysmith (South Africa), mechanical works, medical personnel, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nobel Peace Prize, Nurses, nurses and nursing, Pamela K. Harer, Periodicals, photograph albums, postcards, posters, Red Cross, Red Cross dogs, Red Cross nurses, Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Sheet music covers, South African War (1899-1902), Swiss flag, tents, Woodrow Wilson
The Rolls-Royce “Art Drive” Makes a Stop at The Wolfsonian
• April 21, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, automobile design, automotive design drawings, collectors, displays, Ford Motor Company, Frederic A. Sharf, gifts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, rare books and special collections library, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: aerodynamics, assembly line production, automobiles, Bobby Hupp, Buick, bumpers, Cadillac, designs, Detroit, Durant Motors, Ford Motor Car Company, Frederic A. Sharf, Futuristic vehicles, General Motors, grills, Henry Ford, hood ornaments, Hupmobiles, Hupp Motor Car Company, Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company, Lansing (Michigan), Lincoln automobile, Lincoln Zephyr, Locomobile Company of America, Locomobiles, luxury automobile brands, Miami Art Drive (2017), Oakman Motor Vehicle Company, Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Oldsmobiles, promotional brochures, Ransom E. Olds, RDH Motorcar Company, Rocket V8 engine, Rolls Royce, Sketches, Sotheby's Auction House, Stock Market Crash (1929), T. W. Pietsch II, T. W. Pietsch III, Ted Pietsch
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES THROUGH WESTERN EYES: VISITS TO THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY BY SOME COLOMBIAN SCHOLARS AND A GROUP OF YOUNG AFRICAN LEADERS
• July 15, 2015 • 1 CommentPosted in Boers, colonial propaganda, colonialism, decorative arts, displays, donations, Ethiopia, ethnohistory, FIU, Folklorists, gifts, graphic arts, Italian design, Italy, 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, ocean liners, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, South African War, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Zulus
Tags: Art Deco posters, Aurelio Bertiglia (1891-?), Avram Glazer, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Block books, Boer Wars, carpets, Escuela de Diseno Grafico, Ethiopia, Frederic A. Sharf, Frijoles Canyon Pictoraphs, Great Northern Railway, Gustave Baumann, Hoke Denetsosie, Indian art, Indian culture, Indian dancers, indigenous art, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Jill Glazer, John Collier, Jose Jairo Vargas, Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), Luz Helena Ballestas Rincon, Maude Oakes, medicine man, Native American art, Native American culture, Navaho, Navaho rugs, Navaho War ceremonial, Navajo, Navajo Indian Reservation, New Deal, Pictographs, Plains Indians, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, primers, sand paintings, Santa Fe (New Mexico), School of Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, South African Wars, Symbols, Turkish periodicals, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Winold Reiss (1886-1953)
THE MOSCOW METRO: A WOLFSONIAN COMMEMORATION OF A SUBTERRANEAN PALACE OF THE PEOPLE
• June 3, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, Communism, Communists, donations, gifts, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Second World War (1939-1945), Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, totalitarian architecture, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: air-raid shelters, Art Deco style, Famine, Feliks Topolski (1907-1989), Forced agrarian collectivization, Frederic A. Sharf, Isaac Y. Segal, Ivan Kuznetsov, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), kulaks, Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich (1893-1991), London Underground, Metro, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Siege of Moscow (1941), Socialist Realism, subways, Ukraine, underground, undergrounds
GIVE THANKS TO TED PIETSCH, GET INTO MY CAR: OR, AUTOMOBILES OF DREAMS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• November 13, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in automobile design, automotive design drawings, Frederic A. Sharf, Theodore W. Pietsch, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Auburn Twelve Salon Chassis, Auto Show (Miami Beach), automobiles, Buick (automobile), Chrysler (automobile), Frederic A. Sharf, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz (automobile), Packard automobiles, Sketchbooks, Studebaker, Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch II (1912-1993), Theodore (Ted) W. Pietsch III
A LUXURIOUS TOUR DE FORCE: LE MIAMI, AMERICAN EXCURSIONIST, AND THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY COLLECTION
• June 14, 2014 • 1 CommentPosted in 1930s, cars, children's books, collectors, cruise ships, Cuba, dance, displays, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Depression, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, Laurence Miller Collection, library donors, memorabilia, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museum architecture, museums, ocean liners, oceanliners, Panama Canal, passenger ships, persuasive arts, Photograph albums, postcards, posters, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, streamlined cars, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Theodore Pietsch, Theodore W. Pietsch, trains, transatlantic voyages, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, VIP vistors, Virtual library displays, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Exhibition), world cruises
Tags: advertising, Air travel, airships, American Excursionist, Around the world cruises, Art Deco architecture (Miami Beach), Biscayne Bay Speed Boat Regattas, Blackfeet Indians, Blackstone Cigar, Buick (automobile), Buses, California Limited (train), Canadian Pacific (railroad), Carl G. Fisher (1874-1939), Children's books, Clyde-Mallory Lines, Cuba, Cuban National Tourist Commission, Digital Asset Manager Derek Merleaux, Digital Resources Photographer David Almeida, domestic tourism, Downtown Miami (Fla.), Empire Builder (train), Flamingo Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Frederic A. Sharf, golf courses, Gondolas, Great Hurricane of 1926, Greyhound (bus service), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Highway Traveler (magazine), Hindenburg (airship), Hotel Varadero, Hurricanes, Illinois Central Railroad, Indians in commercial art, Laurence Miller Collection, LE Miami (tradeshow), Little Havana, luxury hotels, luxury liners, Luxury travel, Maps, Mediterranean-revival style architecture, menus, Miami Beach Centennial, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Nautilus Hotel (Miami Beach Fla.), Nippon Ysen Kaisha (N.Y.K. Line), Norddeutsheler Lloyd Bremen (North German Lloyd), North American Indians in art, Oriental Limited (train), Panama Line, Planes, polo grounds, Pueblo Indians, Roney Plaza Hotel (Miami Beach), Rosie the elephant, Sabena (airline), Sans Souci (nightclub), Santa Fe (railroad), Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, Sightseeing tours, Snowbirds, South Beach (Florida), Souvenirs, Swimming pools, T. W. Pietsch, Tea dances, Tennis courts, Thomas C. Ragan Collection, tourism, tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba tourist trade, U.S.-Cuba travel, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Washington Storage Company (Miami Beach Fla.), Winold Reiss (1886-1953), Wonders Never Cease: The 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal (Wolfsonian library exhibit), zeppelins
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (AND THREE MUSEUMS): THE RED STAR LINE AND EUGEEN VAN MIEGHEM MUSEUMS (ANTWERP), AND THE WOLFSONIAN (MIAMI BEACH)
• April 12, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, cruise ships, curator, donations, Dr. Laurence Miller, exhibitions, gifts, Great Depression, Holocaust, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazism, ocean liners, oceanliners, Orientalism, passenger ships, photography, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, transatlantic voyages, VIP vistors, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, world cruises, World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Albert Einstein, Arnold Bernstein, Around the world cruises, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.), Erwin Joos, Eugeen Van Mieghan (1875-1930), Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum, Frederic A. Sharf, Holland Amerika Lijn, International Navigation Company (Philadelphia), Irving Berlin, Laurence Miller, Nazis, Orientalism in art, Philip Heylen, photograph albums, pogroms, Red Star Line, Roland C. Fenner, S. S. Belgenland (Steamship), S.S. Arabic, S.S. Neiuw Amsterdam, Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine (Antwerp), Vaderland (Steamship), Vice Mayor Philip Heylen of the City of Antwerp
