What’s On the Menu? The American Appetite for French Cabaret!
• April 2, 2024 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Artists, collectors, curators, dance, displays, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, postcards, promotional materials, rare books and special collections library, Wolfsonian library exhibits
Tags: "Revue Folies Bergere", 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, Ambassadeurs (theatre-restaurant), Aquacade, Beryl Wallace, Billy Rose, Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe (nightclub), Broadway (NYC), Cab Calloway, Cabarets, Cafe Zanzibar (nightclub), Casa Mañana, Chez Paree (nightclub), Chicago, chorus girls, Club Harlem (nightclub), Cotton Club, Dave Wolper's Hurricane Club, Duke Ellington, E. M. Loew, Earl Carroll, Earl Carroll's (supper club-theater), Eastern Steamship Lines, Edith Piaf, exotic dancers, floor shows, Folies Bergere (film: 1936), Frank Sennes' Moulin Rouge (nightclub), French Casino (nightclub), Glamour, Great Depression, Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), Hollywood, Hollywood Cabaret Restaurant, International Casino (nightclub), Latin Quarter (nightclub), Lou Walters, Maurice Chevalier, menus, Miami Beach, Moulin Rouge, New York City, Nicky Blair's Carnival (dinner club), Paradise Cabaret Restaurant, photograph sleeves, postcards, programs, revues, Rudy Vallee, Sally Rand, showgirls, Texas Centennial Exposition, The Man from the Folies Bergere (film: 1935), Thomas Hunter Henderson, vaccinations, Versailles (nightclub), What's On The Menus (Wolfsonian installation)
COMMEMORATING ASSASSINATED U.S. PRESIDENTS: SOME IMAGES FROM THE WOLFSONIAN LIBRARY
• November 23, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, architects, architecture, collectors, donations, gifts, international expositions, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian fellows, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World's fairs
Tags: A Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934: Chicago Ill), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Alexander Berkman, Alexander Doyle (1857-1922), American Bank Note Company of New York, Anarchists, assassinations, Canton (Ohio), Caspar Buberl (1834-1899), Charles Guiteau, Charles Turzak (1899-1986), commemorations, Electrical lighting, Emma Goldman, Ford’s Theater, George C. Domke, George Keller (1842-1935), Great Lakes Exposition (1936 : Cleveland Ohio), James Garfield (1831-1881), Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Lawrie (1877-1963), Leon Czolgosz, Lincoln Village (Chicago world's fair 1933), log cabins, Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo NY), President John F. Kennedy, Presidential assassinations, Presidential inaugurations, replicas, Robert Todd Lincoln, Ruth Kruger, Sculptors, Sixth Street Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station in Washington D.C., The Wigwam (convention center), Tickets, U.S. presidents, William McKinley (1843-1901), Woodcuts, World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago Ill), X-ray machines
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