HE/SHE GOES TO WAR: TWO SILENT WWI MOVIES CLASSICS AT THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU MUSEUM
• March 31, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communists, donations, First World War (1914-1918), gender, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, pochoirs, political art, posters, promotional materials, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Russia, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, Anti-war movies, Bothwell Browne, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Comedies, cross-dressers, cross-dressing, Eulenburg affair (1907-1909), Female impersonators, Francis Xavier Luca, General Kuno Graf von Moltke, German Empress Auguste Viktoria, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), German Military Secretariat Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, Guy Arnoux, Homosexuality, Howard Chandler, Julian Eltin, Kerensky’s Provisional Government, Maria Bochkareva (1889-1920), munitions factories, Navy recruiting posters, Over the Rhine (film : 1918), Pamela K. Harer, Prince of Eulenburg-Hertefeld, Red Cross nurses, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, Rudy Valentino, Russian Civil War (1917-1922), Russian revolution (1917), satires, Scandals, She Goes to War (film : 1929), Silent film, swine, The adventuress (film : 1920), The Isle of Love (film : 1922), transvestites, Ulk (German satire magazine), Volunteer Aid Detachment (or VAD), war propaganda films, Wilhelm Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Germany (1882-1951), Women war workers, Yankee Doodle in Berlin (film : 1919)
THE “GREAT WAR” AND ITS SEQUEL: WWI WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY EXHIBIT TO CLOSE, WWII EXHIBIT TO OPEN
• March 13, 2015 • Leave a CommentPosted in donations, gifts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Pamela K. Harer, photography, postcards, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Veterans Day, War Photography, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: alphabet books, American eagle, Army barracks, At Ease: Miami Beach During the Second World War (Wolfsonian library exhibit), atlases, bathing beaches, beaches, Bernhardt Wall (1872-1956), caricatures, coloring books, Cossacks, Dachshunds, dogs, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, Exhibition openings, games, geese, Geishas, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), H. Lawrence Wiggins III, Hotels, Humpty Dumpty, John Bull, Judith Berson-Levinson Collection, liberty cabbage, Liberty Loans, marching, Marianne, Miami Beach Centennial, Miami Beach Centennial celebration, military drill, military exercises, military parade, Mother Goose, Natalie Vera, nursery rhyme books, Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times, Pamphlets, parodies, pickelhaube helmets, postcards, Puzzles, Sand in their Boots (event), satires, sauerkraut, servicemen, sheet music, souvenir view books, Stephen Castellanos, syllabification books, The Children's Crusade (Wolfsonian library exhibit), the Great War, Todd Jolly, tourists, U.S. Army Air Forces, Uncle Sam, Veterans Day
BEFORE THE WORLD WENT TO WAR: GLIMPSES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY COLLECTION
• August 29, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in book art, collectors, displays, donations, exhibitions, fashion, fashion for women, Futurism, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Great Britain, Italian design, Italy, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, Panama Canal, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vienna, Vienna Secession, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: 1914, Acerba, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Alastair (1887-1969), Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baron Hans Henning Voight (1887-1969), Belle Epoque, Blast (Vorticist manifesto), C. R. W. Nevinson (1889-1946), caricatures, Carmen, cartoons, Central Europe, Devrin D. Weiss, Dr. Nicolae Harsanyi, Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949), Egon Schiele (1890-1918), F. T. (Filippo Tommaso) Marinetti (1876-1944), First World War, Franz joseph I, Futurism, Futurist poetry, Georges Goursat (1863-1934), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Insects, Italian Futurism, Italian futurists, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, John Bull, Kriegs-album der Lustige Blätter (periodicals), Krupp, L'Eroica (periodical), Lacerba (Futurist manifesto), Le Mot (periodical), Le Vrai & le faux chic, Lobsters, Mela Koehler (1885-1960), Omega Workshops, Panama Canal, Paul Iribe (1883-1935), propaganda, Raul Rodriguez, Rebel Art Centre, Satire, Sem (1863-1934), Sharf Associate Librarian, Sharf Associate Librarian Rochelle Pienn, silk advertisements, Social satire, Symbolist poetry, Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) magazine, Vienna, Vienna Secession, Vorticism, Vorticists, war cartoons, Wien, Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops), women's fashion, World War (1914-1918), Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), Zang Tumb Tuuum, Zira Cigarettes
GENDERED PROPAGANDA AND AMERICAN REACTIONS TO THE GREAT WAR: SHEET MUSIC COVERS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN-FIU LIBRARY
• August 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in rape imagery, rare books and special collections library, romance, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Belgium, cartoons, Centennial of the outbreak of the First World War, communication, Doughboys, gender issues, German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), love, Mobilization for war, mothers and sons, music, Neutrality, Popular culture, President Woodrow Wilson, propaganda, romance, Schlieffen plan, Serbia, Sheet music covers, songs, the "rape of Belgium", transatlantic cables, Uniforms, war
OF PRINCES AND PAUPERS, SUICIDES AND ASSASSINATIONS: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION ON THE CROWN PRINCES OF EUROPE AND THE OUTBREAK OF WWI
• July 2, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in acquisitions, donations, gifts, library donors, propaganda, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: and Bohemia (1858-1889), Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914), assassinations, Assassins, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Baroness Marie Vetsera (1871-1889), Black Hand, Bombs, Bosnia, Conspirators, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886-1954), Duchess of Hohenberg (1868-1914), Emperor Franz Joseph (Austro-Hungarian Empire), European monarchies, Gavrilo Princip (1894-1918), German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Herzegovina, Hungary, Kingdom of Serbia, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Military commanders, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864-1945), Royal affairs, Royal motorcades, Sarajevo, Scandals, Separatist movements, Separatists, Serbia, Sophie, Suicides, terrorists, Wilhelm Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Empire of Germany (1882-1951), Young Bosnia movement
