Skullduggery: Happy Howl-O-Ween from The Wolf
• October 16, 2023 • 1 CommentPosted in American war propaganda, Artists, book art, curators, displays, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, persuasive arts, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian Library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), book illustrators, caricaturists, Cartoonists, cartoons, dance macabre, dance with death, Death, demons, Devil, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Xavier Luca, German expressionist films, gothic poetry and stories, Halloween, Harry Clarke, horror films, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Emperor of Germany), Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Militarism, propagandists, silent film classics, Skeletons, skulls, Tales of Mystery and Imagination / by Edgar Allan Poe, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1920), Wolfsonian Museum, World War (1914-1918)
Frankenstein’s Monsters
• October 22, 2021 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, acquisitions, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian Library
Tags: Alexander Laing, banality of evil, biological weapons, bioweapons, Cadaver of Gideon Wyck, Capitalists, Carnegie Foundation, Clara Helena Palacio Luca, coal towns, Communists, Covid, eugenics, Frankenstein, genetics, Great Depression, Halloween, horror, horror stories, laboratories, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), mermaids, Motives of Nicholas Holtz, pandemics, plagues, Rockefeller Foundation, scientists, sterilization programs, viruses, Weird Tales (pulp periodical)
Historical Horrors for Halloween
• October 30, 2020 • Leave a CommentPosted in Adolf Hitler caricatures, American war propaganda, Artists, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Second World War (1939-1945), Spanish Civil War, The Wolfsonian Library, war propaganda, Wolfsonian staff, World War (1914-1918), World War (1939-1945), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII
Tags: Adolf Hengeler (1863-1927), Barron Gift Collier (1873-1939), bats, bellboys, Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965), Communists, Death, demons, devils, Fascists, Frankenstein, gargoyles, ghouls, Grim Reaper, Halloween, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Jurgen Freese, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Light bulbs, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), monsters, Nazis, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, ogres, Skeletons, skulls, The Belboy (film : 1960_, Vampires, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
HALLOWEEN, WOLFSONIAN-STYLE: DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, AND THE HORRORS OF THE “GREAT WAR”
• October 31, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in Florida International University, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Uncategorized, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War I, WWI
Tags: Anton Kaes, Armistice (November 11th 1918), barbed wire, Camouflage, Cesare (film character), civilian casualties, coffins, Count Orlok, Cubism, Death, defoliated trees, Dr. Caligari (film character), F. W. Nurnau, Film noir, flu, Full Speed Ahead! (newspaper), G. Pretty's Kultur (water-color painting), Georg Grosz (1893-1959), German Expressionism, God's Man: A Novel In Woodcuts, graphic novels, Halloween, Holstenwall, hypnotism, influenza, influenza pandemic (1918-1919), insane asylums, Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), military conscription, movie reviews, movie sets, Nosferatu (film: 1922), plague, prophesy, psychiatrists, rat hunts, Rats, Red Cross, shadows, Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War, shell-bursts, Shell-shock, showmen, silent film classics, Silent Shriek (Wolfsonian film series), social criticism, somnambulists, Spanish Influenza epidemic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (film: 1921), the Great War (1914-1918), Transylvania, Trench warfare, Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière / [painting by] Andre Brouillet (1886), Vampires, Vermin, war and film, war artists, War casualties, war crimes, war neurosis, William Smithson Broadhead (1888-1960), World War (1914-1918), Wounded war veterans, zombies
It’s The Great War, Charlie Brown, or: First World War Images from the Wolfsonian-FIU Library
• October 22, 2014 • Leave a CommentPosted in airplanes, donations, First World War (1914-1918), gifts, Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Collection, library donors, photography, rare books and special collections library, Rochelle T. Pienn, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, War Photography, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War I, WWI
Tags: biplanes, Canada, Cavalry, Charles M. Shulz, Chemical warfare, flying aces, France, gas attacks, Gas masks, Gender roles, German Gotha, Germany, Halloween, hogs, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Linus, Manfred von Richthofen (the “Red Baron” 1892-1918), Maps, Morocco, Nicholas II Emperor of Russia (1868-1918), Peanuts, Rosie the Riveter, rotogravure, Snoopy, Switzerland, the Great War (1914-1918), The New York Times, United States, war, Women war workers
CALL ME AL: GANGSTERS AND GAMBLING AT THE ULTIMATE “GIN-JOINT”
• November 1, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in 1930s, American left artists, archives, collectors, Cuba, Cuba Style, donations, gifts, library donors, museums, Photograph albums, postcards, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Vicki Gold Levi, Vintage postcards, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: 18th Amendment (Prohibition), 1920s, Al Capone's estate on Palm Island, alcohol, Alphonse (Al) Capone (1899-1947), anti-prohibition sentiment and songs, Ashley Abess, Bacardi, Bliss Van Den Houvel, bootleggers, bootlegging, Cathy Leff, Chae Dupont, Chicago, Chris Adamo, Christina Frigo, Cicero, corruption, Craig Robins, crime, criminals, Daniel Milewski, Don Soffer, Edward ("Easy Eddie") O'Hare (1893-1939), Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar, flappers, Frank J. Wilson, fund-raisers, Gabrielle Anwar, gambling, gangland slayings, gangsters, Gonzalo Acevedo, Graft and Gangsters, Halloween, Harry Gannes, informers, IRS, It Will Never Be Dry Down In Havana, Jacob Burck (1907-1982), jury-tampering, Kelly Gazo, Linda La Rocque, Mafia, Miami Beach Greyhound Racetrack Archive, mob, mobsters, molls, murder mysteries, Prohibition, Scarface, Sheet music covers, Tax evasion, Vicki Gold Levi Collection, Volstead Act, World Red Eye
FIENDISH FRANKENSTEIN AND OTHER ENGRAVINGS BY LYND WARD
• October 29, 2010 • Leave a CommentPosted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: Frankenstein, Halloween, Lynd Kendall Ward (1905-1985), Madman’s Drum, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), monsters, Song Without Words, wood engravers, wood engraving
HAUNTING IMAGES FROM HUNGARY
• October 31, 2009 • Leave a CommentPosted in Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
Tags: demons, devils, ephemera, Halloween, Hungarian artists, Isador Kner, vintage postcards
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